I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. - Alexander Payne

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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

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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

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Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ― Rachel Carson

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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore. -Menachem Begin

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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

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On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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