Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed. — 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
We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — 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
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw,… — 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
I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for… — 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
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
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
Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to… — 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
Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't… — 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
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still… — 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 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
![“I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ba/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_i-saw-how-the-government-was-run-there-i_1515160.jpg)
![“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.jpg)
![“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.jpg)
![“... 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 me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; Ifelt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d38/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_things-happen-for-a_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_142242.jpg)
