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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'
— Robert 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
It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.
— Robert Hamer
[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
I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot.
— Dean H. Hamer
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order".
— Fannie Lou Hamer