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
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
[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
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
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 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 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
[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 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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
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
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… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
![“[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cooperatives_on-her-freedom-farm-cooperative-if-you-g_880776.png)
![“All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_accounts_all-of-this-is-on-account-we-want-to-reg_1675663.png)
![“I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](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)
![“[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mu_2573697.png)
