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
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
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
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
When I got on that plane, it was loaded with white people going to Africa for the Peace Corps. I got there… — 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
