Office Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer Download Open image “I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.” — Fannie Lou Hamer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Office People Run Showing
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party. — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. — Malcolm X 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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 Image
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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 Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin 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 Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
![“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.jpg)
![“... 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…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d38/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_things-happen-for-a_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_142242.jpg)
