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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ― Dr. Seuss

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The huge questions of existence still remain unanswered—how did life begin on Earth? What is consciousness? Is there anyone out there or are we alone in the universe? These are questions for the next generation to work on.

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

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Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. ― Colleen Hoover

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