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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. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young. — Christie Hefner

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle. — Otto Weininger

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — Fannie Lou Hamer

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice. — Fannie Lou Hamer

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today? — Fannie Lou Hamer

If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom. — Fannie Lou Hamer

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — Fannie Lou Hamer

A black woman's body was never hers alone. — Fannie Lou Hamer

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. — 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

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. — Joe Gallivan

It's time for America to get right. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer

To begin with, let us take the following motto ... Literature is Love. Now we can continue. — Vladimir Nabokov

You cannot know what you do not feel. — Marya Mannes

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. — Fannie Lou Hamer

And what was she begging for anyway? For him to stop, or to keep going until she dissolved? She — Jennifer Bene

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results. — Soul Dancer

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Lincoln felt a surge of something like strength. He set down Harold and Maude, surreptitiously, and picked up something else, Hairspray. — Rainbow Rowell

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. — Fannie Lou Hamer

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over. — Fannie Lou Hamer

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie. — Rita Ora

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. — Fannie Lou Hamer

When I liberate others, I liberate myself. — Fannie Lou Hamer

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

How many you or I have outlasted doesn't matter, I think. There comes a time when the will just runs out. Doesn't matter what I think, see? — Richard Bachman

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. — Fannie Lou Hamer

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins

Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order". — Fannie Lou Hamer

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad. — Asif Kapadia

It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one. — Kady Cross

Yon grey lines
That fret the clouds are messengers of day. — William Shakespeare