You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S.… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”. — 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… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap."… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and… — 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
I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in… — 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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