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
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
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the… — 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
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
We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — 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
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black… — 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
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;… — 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
I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I… — 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 worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it… — 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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