Mississippi Delta Quotes

“We walked into the small store where [Emmett] Till had agreed to take that dare and thereby signed his death warrant.

A white man and woman with sour, tight faces sat in rocking chairs before a dirty spittoon. When we entered, they looked at us and kept their eyes on us until we left. I bought a candy bar from the tall, red-faced man behind the counter, and we walked out. He came to the window and watched us until we got in the car. As we walked back to the car, I noticed a large sign before a drygoods store. It read, "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you." I called it to Amzie's attention. He smiled and said, "That ain't up there for them. It's for us.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin