America Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

“What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer — Download Open 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 longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Fannie Lou Hamer

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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,…

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

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

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