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

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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.

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