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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!
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
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Fannie Lou Townsend
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... 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 me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
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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, these things been happening.
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You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
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Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.
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A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
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Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
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If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
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These people in Mississippi State, they are not down all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.
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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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We serve God by serving our fellow man kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
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We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.
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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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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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