No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I… — 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… — 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
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — 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 father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mu_2573697.png)
