Emmett Till Quotes
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“A quiet
snowglobe of pain
I want to shake.
While the flakes fall
like ash we race
the train to reach the place
Emmett Till last
whistled or smiled
or did nothing.”
― Brown: Poems
snowglobe of pain
I want to shake.
While the flakes fall
like ash we race
the train to reach the place
Emmett Till last
whistled or smiled
or did nothing.”
― Brown: Poems
“We do not recognize the body
Of Emmett Till. We do not know
The boy’s name nor the sound
Of his mother wailing. We have
Never heard a mother wailing.
We do not know the history
Of this nation in ourselves. We
Do not know the history of our-
Selves on this planet because
We do not have to know what
We believe we own.”
― The Tradition
Of Emmett Till. We do not know
The boy’s name nor the sound
Of his mother wailing. We have
Never heard a mother wailing.
We do not know the history
Of this nation in ourselves. We
Do not know the history of our-
Selves on this planet because
We do not have to know what
We believe we own.”
― The Tradition
“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks standing in a circle roasting something that had talked to them in their own language before they tore out its tongue.”
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“Camille Cosby released a statement of her own. In it she lashed out at the media, at Steele, and at the entire prosecution team. She compared her husband’s case to that of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 Mississippi after being falsely accused of leering at a white woman, and Darryl Hunt, an African American man who served nineteen years in prison after being falsely convicted of raping and murdering a white woman in North Carolina in 1984.”
― Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad
― Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad
“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.”
― Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
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.”
― Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“Three days later when his body was found they wanted to bury him in Mississippi. I wanted him home in Chicago. I wanted the world to see what they did to my boy. I wanted Emmett's death to be the last death. I wanted Emmett's death to kill American innocence. I wanted Emmett's death to be not only the death of my boy but the death of innocence. I wanted Mississippi, I wanted America, to give us justice. And I prayed that I would live long enough to see it.”
― Acolytes
― Acolytes
“Let’s show lots of love for Emmett Till
And fight against bigotry, racism, and hate
Let’s show lots of love for Emmett Till
So humanity can have a better fate”
― Turn The Tables
And fight against bigotry, racism, and hate
Let’s show lots of love for Emmett Till
So humanity can have a better fate”
― Turn The Tables
“He was an innocent Black boy in Mississippi
Minding his business, going to the store
He became a Civil Rights movement icon
Emmett Till’s spirit continues to roar
This 14-year-old boy was lynched
Because of a woman named Carolyn Bryant
Who said that he flirted and whistled at her
But it was a lie meant to help evil stir”
― Turn The Tables
Minding his business, going to the store
He became a Civil Rights movement icon
Emmett Till’s spirit continues to roar
This 14-year-old boy was lynched
Because of a woman named Carolyn Bryant
Who said that he flirted and whistled at her
But it was a lie meant to help evil stir”
― Turn The Tables
“And I kept screaming, as the cameras kept flashing," [Mamie] wrote, "in one long, explosive moment that would be captured for the morning editions.”
― The Blood of Emmett Till
― The Blood of Emmett Till
“[The undertaker] asked if [Mamie] wanted him to retouch Emmett's body and make him look a little more presentable, "No," [she] said. That was the way [she] wanted him presented. "Let the world see what I have seen.”
― The Blood of Emmett Till
― The Blood of Emmett Till
“We can still hear the marching feet of millions in the streets of America, all of them belonging to the children of Emmett Till.”
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“A quiet
snowglobe of pain
I want to shake.
While the flakes fall
like ash we race
the train to reach the place
Emmett Till last
whistled or smiled
or did nothing.”
―
snowglobe of pain
I want to shake.
While the flakes fall
like ash we race
the train to reach the place
Emmett Till last
whistled or smiled
or did nothing.”
―
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