I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change -- not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen.

I don't want equal rights with the white man; if I did, I'd be a thief and a murderer.

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

They -- you know, when we walked in -- when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down -- and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Some of my people could have been left in Africa and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.

I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and the people not interested in letting somebody pat you on the back and tell us I think it is right. And it is very important for us not to accept a compromise and after I got back to Mississippi, people there said it was the most important step that had been taken.

In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.

You know the Scripture says be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap. And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought this decision, not to accept the compromise, was so important. There wasn't one letter I have gotten so far that said we should have accepted the compromise -- not one.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.