You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S.… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more. — 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
Some things I found out in the National Convention I wasn't too glad I did find out. But we will work hard,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is… — 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
It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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
I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing… — 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
The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. Now you know, I don't know how you can… — 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
I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this:… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — 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 after year,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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 Image
