We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — 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
We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
