"... some of my people could have been……" — 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 me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; Ifelt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up withnothing."
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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29 Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer
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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…
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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…
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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…
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You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going…
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We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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