"The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000."

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You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.

— Fannie Lou Hamer