29 Quotes by Medgar Evers

Freedom has never been free.

Our only hope is to control the...

Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.

You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

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.

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.