Black Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

“We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer — Download Open image

“We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Black Freedom Liberation Men People Sides Trying

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 people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he…

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 de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the…

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…

Fannie Lou Hamer

Image

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

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 they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say,…

Fannie Lou Hamer

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Image

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Image

“Whether you have a Ph. D. or no D. we're in this bag together.”

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Image

Explore all 118 Fannie Lou Hamer quotes

More Black quotes

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

Jesmyn Ward

Image

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want…

Miley Cyrus

Image

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

Thomas Sowell

Image

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

Alexander Gordon Smith

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

Colin Marston

Image

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

Maureen Duffy

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 people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he…

Fannie Lou Hamer

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

Gore Vidal

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they…

Frank B. Wilderson III

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Mike Tyson

Image

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

R. Scott Bakker

Image

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black…

John Boyega

Browse all 10,926 Black quotes

Black Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

Related quotes

More by Fannie Lou Hamer

More Black quotes