I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
![“[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different and when this Movement came to Mississippi I still feel it is one of the greatest things that ever happened because only a person living in the State of Mississippi knows what…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_clothings_my-mother-tried-so-hard-to-make-life-eas_1689512.jpg)
