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It always seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela
I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it. - Medgar Evers
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer
One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.- Fannie Lou Hamer
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. -Christopher Parker
I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen. - Fannie Lou Hamer
