Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy > Status Update

"To be quite frank with you all I am quite calm and un-nervous. After a while you get used to the idea of being watched and hated. Also I just don't have the goddamned time to be nervous or worried.... I am in the midst of a revolution. This is the greatest revolution since the American Revolution."

"Y'all gonna hear a lot of different stories from white folks about what these people are and why they're down here," Robert Miles said. "White folks are gonna tell you they're agitators. You know what an agitator is? An agitator is the piece in the center of a washing machine that spins around to get dirt out. Well, that's what these people are here for. They're here to get dirt out.”