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

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I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. - 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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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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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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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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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. -Fannie Lou Hamer

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Stay firm to your goal, the right people will associate with you! ― Avijeet Das

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

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