17 Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Fannie Lou Hamer

American Activist

Born: Oct 6, 1917

Died: Mar 14, 1977

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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. Fannie Lou Hamer

Today Mistake World Made White Every Put Know Because American Move Behind Where Them Us Watched

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer

Vote People Lost Jobs Know Mississippi Lots Trying Register Who

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world. Fannie Lou Hamer

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If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. Fannie Lou Hamer

Freedom Fight Fall Backing Feet Off Five Inches Forward Four

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. Fannie Lou Hamer

You Man Remember Will White Back Ourselves Gives Take He Remember When Ready Gets Just Anything Right Right Back

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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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? Fannie Lou Hamer

I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. Fannie Lou Hamer

You Training Beat Had Voter Know Pass How Test Were Been Jail Just Literacy Register Registration Us Teaching Workshop

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places. Fannie Lou Hamer

Tired You Vote People Rest Too Other State Out Would See About Had Know Because Heard Get Going Anything Flat Places Fields Registering Land Much Less Radio Even Play Here

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. Fannie Lou Hamer

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. Fannie Lou Hamer

Vote Rights Before Our About Could Never Knew Nobody Talked How Human Human Beings Register Us Beings Ever

I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. Fannie Lou Hamer

People Run Office Showing

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen. Fannie Lou Hamer

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