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America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.
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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I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
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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 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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Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.
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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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You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
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It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.
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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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The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold white people bo ught them white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?
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We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.
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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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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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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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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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