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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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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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. -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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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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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- 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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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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It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. ― Hunter S. Thompson

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