My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

- James Meredith

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

- James Meredith

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

- James Meredith

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

- James Meredith