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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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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
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed. - 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
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer
That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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
Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer
Nobody's free until everybody's free. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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
