--- title: "12 Knows Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer" description: "12 Knows quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer. Plus more from Fannie Lou Hamer and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png" --- > [Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png) > [You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberating-myself-from-the-black-man/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberat_991068.jpg) > [I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-things-that-happened-that-made/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_children_i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-t_2413339.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) > [You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-the-scripture-says-be-not-deceived-for-god-is-not-mocked/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_deceived_you-know-the-scripture-says-be-not-decei_1702216.png) > [I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-don-t-know-about-the-press-but-i-know-in-the-town-where-i-live/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_journalism_i-don-t-know-about-the-press-but-i-know_2747959.png) > [ \[My mother\] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/my-mother-tried-so-hard-to-make-life-easy-for-us-those-are-the-things/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_clothings_my-mother-tried-so-hard-to-make-life-eas_1689512.jpg) > [I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-think-there-will-be-great-leaders-emerging-from-the-state-of/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_accepting_i-think-there-will-be-great-leaders-emer_2723459.jpg) > [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) > [ ... 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 remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-remember-and-i-will-never-forget-one-day-i-was-six-years-old-and-i/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cotton_i-remember-and-i-will-never-forget-one-d_1262811.png) > [You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S.…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_you-know-what-really-made-me-sick-i-was_11342.png) ## Other authors on Knows ## 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/knows/fannie-lou-hamer/#itemlist", "name": "12 Knows Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the \"black\" man - I'm not going to try that thing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberating-myself-from-the-black-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberat_991068.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberat_991068.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_you-know-i-m-not-hung-up-on-this-liberat_991068.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-things-that-happened-that-made/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_children_i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-t_2413339.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_children_i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-t_2413339.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_children_i-would-like-to-talk-about-some-of-the-t_2413339.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong…” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? 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Now you know, I don't know how you can compare this by me being able to see a President of a country when I have just been there two days; and here I have been in America, born in America, and I am 46 years pleading with the President for the last two to three years to just give us a chance-and this President in Guinea recognized us enough to talk to us.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came-to-see-us-on-the-13th-now/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_able_the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came_2740795.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_able_the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came_2740795.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_able_the-president-of-guinea-sekou-toure-came_2740795.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. 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