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I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.
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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This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.
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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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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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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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Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
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It's time for America to get right.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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!
Fannie Lou Hamer
Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.
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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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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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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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No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
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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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If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
Fannie Lou Hamer
We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.
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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
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
Fannie Lou Hamer
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.
Fannie Lou Hamer
