Carolina Quotes
I think there has to be a recognition to carry the struggle forward in the '70s, you are going to have to have far more skills in the '70s than you had in the '60s, when the premium for rewarding good leadership was courage . . . courage to stand in front of firehoses and let a dog bite them and keep on marching. But, if you use the courage to open the doors, how the hell do you go in and stay in?
Floyd McKissick Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Jack Bass and Walter DeVries, December 6, 1973; Southern Oral History Program, Interview A-0134, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Floyd B. McKissick Sr., Interview A-0134
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- 1973
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“I think there has to be a recognition to carry the struggle …” Floyd McKissick. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-F3C0DF8C23. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/f3c0df8c23
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I believe in civil disobedience and I believe that if you believe the law is wrong, then you disobey that law and you pay the consequences for it.
There has to be a method of opening the doors. So there's no other method except an outward confrontation, and that confrontation has to be had and has to be had in public in order to bring about change.
Just forget the damn differences, we can't solve them anyway, most of the time and you're always going to have pretty near that five percent difference. Get them together on their common objectives and you slowly detract from their differences.