He asked me if I was scared to die. And I said to him, there's a lot worse things than dying, and One of those, and chief among us is losing our constitutional rights and having our children raised in slavery. I said to him, at that time, I said, sometimes our only consolation is that we can die with our boots on. We can die fighting for these things. (08:39–08:58)
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Asserts that losing constitutional rights and having children raised in slavery are fates worse than death.
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