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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers
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Man
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. - Medgar Evers
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Sacrifice
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I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I'll be going from Jackson. - Medgar Evers
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Heaven
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The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with. - Medgar Evers
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Streets
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Let me appeal to the consciences of many silent, responsible citizens of the white community who know that a victory for democracy in Jackson will be a victory for democracy everywhere. - Medgar Evers
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Everywhere
Consciences
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Our only hope is to control the vote. - Medgar Evers
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Control
Hope
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The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. - Medgar Evers
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Enjoyed
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I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes. - Medgar Evers
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Student
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I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there. - Medgar Evers
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Raised
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First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.' - Medgar Evers
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Courthouse
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Threaten
Property
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Drama
Remember
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Complaint
Indian
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Sooner
Turn
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Perplexed
Happen
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Satisfaction
Superior
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Discussion
Converse
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democratic
Endanger
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Liberties
Surest
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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People
Second
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