You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing. — 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
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put… — 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 are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground… — 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
![“I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-scared_i-guess-if-i-d-had-any-sense-i-d-have-be_1874767.png)
![“[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different and when this Movement came to Mississippi I still feel it is one of the greatest things that ever happened because only a person living in the State of Mississippi knows what…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_clothings_my-mother-tried-so-hard-to-make-life-eas_1689512.jpg)
