--- title: "18 White Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer" description: "18 White quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer. Plus more from Fannie Lou Hamer and more White sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png" --- > [Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png) > [A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/a-white-man-killed-the-mules-and-our-cows-that-knocked-us-right-back/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb9/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_a-white-man-killed-the-mules-and-our-cow_535736.png) > [Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/actually-some-of-the-things-i-experienced-as-a-child-still-linger-on/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_actually-some-of-the-things-i-experience_1815199.jpg) > [If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/if-the-white-man-gives-you-anything-just-remember-when-he-gets-ready/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_ready_if-the-white-man-gives-you-anything-just_1645826.png) > [This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/this-white-man-who-is-saying-it-takes-time-for-three-hundred-and-more/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_hundred_this-white-man-who-is-saying-it-takes-ti_3187263.png) > [ We have been listening year after year to \[white people\] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-to-white-people-and-what-have/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_deals_we-have-been-listening-year-after-year-t_2187972.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) > [White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/white-americans-today-don-t-know-what-in-the-world-to-do-because-when/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/686/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_americans_white-americans-today-don-t-know-what-in_3147953.png) > [In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/in-fact-one-day-i-was-going-to-jackson-and-i-saw-a-huge-sign-that-u-s/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_charter_in-fact-one-day-i-was-going-to-jackson-a_1208004.png) > [No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/no-what-would-i-look-like-fighting-for-equality-with-the-white-man-i/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7c/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_no-what-would-i-look-like-fighting-for-e_2428486.png) > [Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/our-foreparents-were-mostly-brought-from-west-africa-we-were-brought/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_our-foreparents-were-mostly-brought-from_2503930.png) > [We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_we-have-to-build-our-own-power-we-have-t_1215.png) > [I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/i-got-pictures-of-us-and-they-would-draw-big-red-rings-around-us-and/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-got-pictures-of-us-and-they-would-draw_2652971.png) > [When I got on that plane, it was loaded with white people going to Africa for the Peace Corps. I got there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/when-i-got-on-that-plane-it-was-loaded-with-white-people-going-to/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c2/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_able_when-i-got-on-that-plane-it-was-loaded-w_2945246.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) > [One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/one-of-the-things-i-remember-as-a-child-there-was-a-man-named-joe/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_belts_one-of-the-things-i-remember-as-a-child_2548041.png) > [ \[My father\] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mules-we-didn-t-have-tractors/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_cows_my-father-did-get-enough-money-to-buy-mu_2573697.png) > [You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/you-can-tell-this-by-the-program-the-federal-government-had-to-train/) [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-lou-hamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/122/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_concerned_you-can-tell-this-by-the-program-the-fed_1929625.jpg) ## Other authors on White ## 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/white/fannie-lou-hamer/#itemlist", "name": "18 White Quotes By Fannie Lou Hamer", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fannie Lou Hamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-lou-hamer/black-people-know-what-white-people-mean-when-they-say-law-and-order/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_black_black-people-know-what-white-people-mean_695737.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.” — Fannie Lou Hamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. 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