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

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Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough. -David Packard

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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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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. - Lord Byron

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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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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- 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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. ― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

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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

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