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• ‟ It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

  - James Meredith
  

• ‟ I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.

  - James Meredith
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

  - James Meredith
  

• ‟ Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights movement thought they would do me harm over the years by disassociating themselves from me. Well, nothing in the world was more to my advantage. I was never one of them... I had my own divine mission.

  - James Meredith
  

• ‟ Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

  - James Meredith