--- title: "7 Tired Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer" description: "7 Tired quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer. Plus more from Fannie Lou Hamer and more Tired sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_sick_i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-ti_39338.png" --- > [I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_sick_i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-ti_39338.png) > [We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-seats-when-all-of-us-is-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_inspirational_we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-se_181497.png) > [I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-do-remember-one-time-a-man-came-to-me-after-the-students-began-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_getting-tired_i-do-remember-one-time-a-man-came-to-me_537540.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-didn-t-come-all-the-way-up-here-to-compromise-for-no-more-than-we/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bd/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_causes_we-didn-t-come-all-the-way-up-here-to-co_1507864.png) > [People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/people-have-got-to-get-together-and-work-together-i-m-tired-of-the/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_get-together_people-have-got-to-get-together-and-work_2196283.png) > [We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-hadn-t-heard-anything-about-registering-to-vote-because-when-you/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_people_we-hadn-t-heard-anything-about-registeri_2665497.png) > [We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-serve-god-by-serving-our-fellow-man-kids-are-suffering-from/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_christian_we-serve-god-by-serving-our-fellow-man-k_2751569.jpg) ## Other authors on Tired ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-have-to-build-our-own-power-we-have-to-win-every-single-political/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-know-what-really-made-me-sick-i-was-in-washington-d-c-at-another/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/it-was-the-31st-of-august-in-1962-that-eighteen-of-us-traveled-twenty/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-speaking-three-languages-in/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-in-africa-and-are-living-there/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-saw-in-chicago-on-the-street-where-i-was-visiting-my-sister-in-law/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-seats-when-all-of-us-is-tired/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/the-mississippi-is-not-the-only-river-there-s-the-tallahatchie-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-was-in-jail-when-medgar-evers-was-murdered-and-nothing-i-mean/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [“Whether you have a Ph. D. or no D. we're in this bag together.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/whether-you-have-a-ph-d-or-no-d-we-re-in-this-bag-together/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/what-i-really-feel-is-necessary-is-that-the-black-people-in-this/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/one-day-i-know-the-struggle-will-change-there-s-got-to-be-a-change/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) > [A black woman's body was never hers alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/a-black-woman-s-body-was-never-hers-alone/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/with-the-people-for-the-people-by-the-people-i-crack-up-when-i-hear/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tired/fannie-lou-hamer/#itemlist", "name": "7 Tired Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_sick_i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-ti_39338.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_sick_i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-ti_39338.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_sick_i-am-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-ti_39338.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-seats-when-all-of-us-is-tired/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_inspirational_we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-se_181497.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_inspirational_we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-se_181497.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_inspirational_we-didnt-come-all-this-way-for-no-two-se_181497.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. 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