Mamie Till Quotes

• Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.

  Mamie Till

  Jobs, Nice, Son

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• When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

  Mamie Till

  Son, Men, Lynching

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• Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

  Mamie Till

  Son, Vacation, Sight

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• No podemos permitirnos el lujo de la autocompasión. Nuestra máxima prioridad ahora es seguir adelante con el proceso de construcción. Mi paz personal ha llegado al ayudar a niños y niñas a ir más allá de lo ordinario y luchar por lo extraordinario. Debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos a capear los huracanes de la vida, recoger los pedazos y reconstruir. Debemos inculcarles que, incluso cuando los problemas alcancen los siete puntos uno en la escala Richter de la vida, deben anclarse tan profundamente que, aunque se balanceen, no se derrumbarán...".

  Mamie Till

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson (2011). “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America”, p.8, Random House

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• I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.

  Mamie Till

  Thinking, Emmett Till, Needed

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• If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

  Mamie Till

  Past, White, Knees

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• I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

  Mamie Till

  Meaningful, Heart, Purpose

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