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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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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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That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. -Fannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi
Away
Them
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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
Home
Sleep
Human
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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
Struggle
Mississippi
World
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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
Anybody
Wrap
Hope
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer
Free
Until
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. -Fannie Lou Hamer
Tired
Sick
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