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It always seems impossible until it’s done. —Nelson Mandela
Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer
I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. - Fannie Lou Hamer
As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. - Fannie Lou Hamer
We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places. - Fannie Lou Hamer
On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me. - Fannie Lou Hamer
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. - Fannie Lou Hamer
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. -Fannie Lou Hamer
It always seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela
