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Fannie Lou Hamer has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll…
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I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the…
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All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is…
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You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put…
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We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority…
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Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a…
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But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you…
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If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
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I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for…
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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 way…
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to…
— Alice Walker
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It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with…
— Gloria Steinem
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole…
— Paula Poundstone
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
— Penn Jillette
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
— Paula Poundstone
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I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed…
— A.M. Homes
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Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
— Nelson DeMille
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If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you…
— John Berendt
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