White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. - 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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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

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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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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein

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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

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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. -Fannie Lou Hamer

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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. - 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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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

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