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

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I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

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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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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. ― Clive Barker

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Nobody's free until everybody's free. - 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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If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.― Anais Nin

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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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