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
if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today? — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land,… — 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 guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the… — 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
When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you… — 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
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