--- title: "19 Black Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer" description: "19 Black quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer. Plus more from Fannie Lou Hamer and more Black sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alon_389418.png" --- > [A black woman's body was never hers alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alone/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alon_389418.png) > [Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png) > [Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents-the-black-man-s-blood-that/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents_1546390.png) > [The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-mississippi-is-not-the-only-river-there-s-the-tallahatchie-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_bigs_the-mississippi-is-not-the-only-river-th_277729.png) > [We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-are-here-to-work-side-by-side-with-this-black-man-in-trying-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/833/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_we-are-here-to-work-side-by-side-with-th_1057935.png) > [Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/actually-some-of-the-things-i-experienced-as-a-child-still-linger-on/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_actually-some-of-the-things-i-experience_1815199.jpg) > [You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberating-myself-from-the-black-man/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberat_991068.jpg) > [ I saw how the Government was run there \[in Africa\] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-saw-how-the-government-was-run-there-in-africa-and-i-saw-where/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ba/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_africa_i-saw-how-the-government-was-run-there-i_1515160.png) > [America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/america-that-is-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand-and-we-cannot-say/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_america-that-is-divided-against-itself-c_1256979.png) > [I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-always-said-if-i-lived-to-get-grown-and-had-a-chance-i-was-going-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_i-always-said-if-i-lived-to-get-grown-an_1875020.jpg) > [ I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages \[in Guinea\]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-speaking-three-languages-in/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.png) > [We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-have-to-build-our-own-power-we-have-to-win-every-single-political/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_we-have-to-build-our-own-power-we-have-t_1215.png) > [The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-only-thing-i-really-feel-is-necessary-is-that-the-black-people/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0c/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_the-only-thing-i-really-feel-is-necessar_960730.jpg) > [Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/now-many-things-are-beginning-to-come-out-and-it-was-truly-a-reality/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_now-many-things-are-beginning-to-come-ou_2089894.png) > [One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/one-of-the-things-i-remember-as-a-child-there-was-a-man-named-joe/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_belts_one-of-the-things-i-remember-as-a-child_2548041.png) > [Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our-names-in-ink-but-we-have/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.jpg) > [The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-only-thing-i-really-feel-is-necessary-is-that-the-black-people-2/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e06/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_the-only-thing-i-really-feel-is-necessar_3043839.jpg) > [I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-have-just-as-much-right-to-stay-in-america-in-fact-the-black-people/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-have-just-as-much-right-to-stay-in-ame_2494878.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/whether-you-have-a-ph-d-or-no-d-we-re-in-this-bag-together-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_bags_whether-you-have-a-ph-d-or-no-d-we-re-in_2524828.jpg) ## Other authors on Black ## More by Fannie Lou Hamer > [We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-have-to-build-our-own-power-we-have-to-win-every-single-political/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-what-really-made-me-sick-i-was-in-washington-d-c-at-another/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/it-was-the-31st-of-august-in-1962-that-eighteen-of-us-traveled-twenty/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [ I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages \[in Guinea\]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-speaking-three-languages-in/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [ ... 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-in-africa-and-are-living-there/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-saw-in-chicago-on-the-street-where-i-was-visiting-my-sister-in-law/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-seats-when-all-of-us-is-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-mississippi-is-not-the-only-river-there-s-the-tallahatchie-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-was-in-jail-when-medgar-evers-was-murdered-and-nothing-i-mean/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [“Whether you have a Ph. D. or no D. we're in this bag together.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/whether-you-have-a-ph-d-or-no-d-we-re-in-this-bag-together/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/what-i-really-feel-is-necessary-is-that-the-black-people-in-this/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/one-day-i-know-the-struggle-will-change-there-s-got-to-be-a-change/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [A black woman's body was never hers alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alone/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/with-the-people-for-the-people-by-the-people-i-crack-up-when-i-hear/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black/fannie-lou-hamer/#itemlist", "name": "19 Black Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A black woman's body was never hers alone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alone/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alon_389418.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alon_389418.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alon_389418.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A black woman's body was never hers alone.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents-the-black-man-s-blood-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents_1546390.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents_1546390.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_every-red-stripe-in-that-flag-represents_1546390.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Mississippi is not the only river. 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