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Brief author info: Medgar Evers (1926-1963) American civil rights activist African American born in Mississippi. As successful insurance salesman, was shocked at poverty of rural African Americans he met; quit to become full-time chapter organizer and field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi; investigated murders of various African Americans; first major civil rights leader to be assassinated; his murderer was not convicted until 1994.

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You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

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

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Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

Relationship Quote

A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

Love Quote

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

People Quote

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

Life Quote

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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