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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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Oppression
Trying
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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Register
Before
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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Register
People
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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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Eighteen
Policemen
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If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Freedom
Inches
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