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

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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

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