Medgar & Myrlie Quotes

“Freedom has never been free,” Medgar told the crowd that night. “I love my children,” he said to a hushed room. “And I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.”
― Joy-Ann Reid, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

“It didn’t take much reading of the Bible though, to convince me that two wrongs would not make the situation any different, and that I couldn’t hate the white man, and at the same time hope to convert him.”
― Joy-Ann Reid, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

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― Joy-Ann Reid, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America