States Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

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

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

... 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

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

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Whether you have a Ph. D. or no D. we're in this bag together.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer