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“ I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. ”

“ I use the term radical in its original meaninggetting down to and understanding the root cause. ”

“ In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been. ”

“ Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. ”

“ I don't think you could go through the Freedom Movement without finding that the backbone of the support of the Movement were women. ”

“ One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. ”

“ And there's a lot of difference between the development of single individuals as leaders and the development of leadership, with leadership concepts. ”

“ I don't think that the leadership of Montgomery was prepared to capitalize, let's put it, on the projection that had come out of the Montgomery situation. ”

“ Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it. ”

“ Strong people don't need strong leaders. ”