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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
There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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
Nobody's free until everybody's free. - Fannie Lou Hamer
On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me. - Fannie Lou Hamer
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer
If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.