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
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 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
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 know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. — 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had… — 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
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
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