"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."

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"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."

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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."

Government

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."

Family

"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

Death

"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."

Time

"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me."

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"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."

People

"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."

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"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."

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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."

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"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."

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