"You can pray until you faint, but unless……" — Fannie Lou Hamer
"You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap."
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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29 Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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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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No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I…
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
— William Blake
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I…
— Erma Bombeck
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
— George Clooney
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It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
— Charles Wesley
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint."…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
— Sun Tzu
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And…
— Adelaide Crapsey
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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