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If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
— James Meredith
Tags: doing, black, society, people

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Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
— James Meredith
Tags: nothing, past, future, time
You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.
— James Meredith
Tags: rebellion, america, understand, you
What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.
— James Meredith
Tags: going, destroy, white, nothing
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
— James Meredith
Tags: lightning, get, whatever, how, she
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
— James Meredith
Tags: citizenship, more, nothing, me
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