I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well. — 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
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on… — 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… — 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 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
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for… — 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
I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw,… — 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
America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have… — 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
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught… — 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
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
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 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
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
When I got on that plane, it was loaded with white people going to Africa for the Peace Corps. I got there… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to… — 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
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
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people… — 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
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
These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get… — 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… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Some things I found out in the National Convention I wasn't too glad I did find out. But we will work hard,… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't… — 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
The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for… — 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
![“I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ba/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_i-saw-how-the-government-was-run-there-i_1515160.jpg)
![“We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c89/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_deals_we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-t_2187972.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; I felt 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/d22/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_angry_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_883791.jpg)
![“Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b5/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_around-the-corner_christianity-is-being-concerned-about-ot_2597309.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)
![“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.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)
