People Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer speaks about ordinary people shaping change. She tells of a child who can speak three languages and of rivers where lives are lost, urging a new direction for Mississippi and beyond. Her words stress that the black community must upset the old system.
![“... 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/i/d22/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_angry_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_883791.png)
![“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/i/8ba/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_africa_i-saw-how-the-government-was-run-there-i_1515160.png)
![“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/i/c89/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_deals_we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-t_2187972.png)
![“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/i/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.png)
![“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/i/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.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/i/0b5/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_around-the-corner_christianity-is-being-concerned-about-ot_2597309.jpg)
