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.
Freedom has never been free.
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
Our only hope is to control the vote.
The quote asserts that the speaker's sole or primary hope lies in exerting influence or control over the voting process, suggesting a belief in the transformative power of collective decision-making.
We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.