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That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. - Fannie Lou Hamer
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
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
I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally. ― W.C. Fields
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed. - Fannie Lou Hamer
If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.- Terry Pratchett
