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Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer
Age: 59 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 6
Died: 1977
Died: March 14
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Montgomery County
Mississippi
Fannie Lou Townsend
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Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
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If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
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I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
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I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.
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It's time for America to get right.
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In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.
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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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just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.
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You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
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I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: Go back to Africa.
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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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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.
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I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
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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 whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.
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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 was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.
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When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
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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 this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.
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