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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

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers. — Bob Costas

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

Aedion's heart stopped dead. "It's a sea dragon," he managed to say.
Well, at least he now knew what secret form Lysandra had been working on. — Sarah J. Maas

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

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born) — Horace

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led. — Thomas Carlyle

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

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. — Gore Vidal

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

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational. — Warren Buffett

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

Not all that counts, can be counted — Albert Einstein

I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you — Julia Hoban

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

[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 have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. — Shuji Nakamura

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