“The weapons that you have are not to kill people with- killing is wrong. Your guns are to protect your families- to stop them from being killed. Let the Klan ride, but if they try to do wrong against you, STOP THEM! If we’re going to win this fight we got to have a clean record. Stay here, my friends, you are needed most here, stay and protect your homes.”

Robert F Williams- speaking to a group of Armed Blacks that had gathered at his house upon hearing rumors of an approa...ching Klan mob