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• The pistol they were looking for-which they never found, and for which they wouldn't issue a permit-was sewed up inside a pillow. My father's .22 rifle and his shotgun, though, were right out in the open; everyone had them for hunting birds and rabbits and other game.
• This time, the get-out-of-town threats came from a local hate society called The Black Legion.
• Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin
• my father had decided to risk and dedicate hi& life to help dissemi- nate this philosophy among his people
• he had seen four of his six brothers die by violence, three of them killed by white men, including one by lynching.

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