--- title: "12 Has beens Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer" description: "12 Has beens quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer. Plus more from Fannie Lou Hamer and more Has beens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_bigs_the-mississippi-is-not-the-only-river-th_277729.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) > [That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/that-s-why-i-believe-in-christianity-because-the-scriptures-said-the/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c6/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_believe_that-s-why-i-believe-in-christianity-bec_3036851.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/097/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_done_i-was-in-jail-when-medgar-evers-was-murd_330160.png) > [I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-believe-in-christianity-because-the-scriptures-said-the-things-that/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc0/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_believe_i-believe-in-christianity-because-the-sc_779264.png) > [ I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared \[to register to vote\] - but what was the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-guess-if-i-d-had-any-sense-i-d-have-been-a-little-scared-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-scared_i-guess-if-i-d-had-any-sense-i-d-have-be_1874767.png) > [ We have been listening year after year to \[white people\] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-to-white-people-and-what-have/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_deals_we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-t_2187972.png) > [ ... some of my people could have been left \[in Africa\] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-in-africa-and-are-living-there-2/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_angry_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_883791.png) > [I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-got-pictures-of-us-and-they-would-draw-big-red-rings-around-us-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-got-pictures-of-us-and-they-would-draw_2652971.png) > [The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. Now you know, I don't know how you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came-to-see-us-on-the-13th-now/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_able_the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came_2740795.jpg) > [I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-do-remember-one-time-a-man-came-to-me-after-the-students-began-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_getting-tired_i-do-remember-one-time-a-man-came-to-me_537540.png) > [Some things I found out in the National Convention I wasn't too glad I did find out. But we will work hard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/some-things-i-found-out-in-the-national-convention-i-wasn-t-too-glad/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_some-things-i-found-out-in-the-national_994335.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-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) ## Other authors on Has beens ## 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/has-beens/fannie-lou-hamer/#itemlist", "name": "12 Has beens Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. 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