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
I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro… — 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
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — 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 have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — 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
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — 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
![“[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/img-quotes/986/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cooperatives_on-her-freedom-farm-cooperative-if-you-g_880776.jpg)
![“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/img-quotes/321/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_accounts_all-of-this-is-on-account-we-want-to-reg_1675663.jpg)
![“[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/img-quotes/8dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mu_2573697.jpg)
![“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.jpg)
![“... 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 me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; Ifelt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d38/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_things-happen-for-a_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_142242.jpg)
