Fannie Lou Hamer
‘Nobody's free until everbody’s free.’
‘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.’
‘I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.’
‘With the people, for the people,by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful cause that’s what really happens.’
‘There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.’
“When asked by a white reporter if she were trying to be equal with the white man, she replied: “I don’t want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that’ll raise me and that white man up…raise America up.”
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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.’
‘I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.’
‘With the people, for the people,by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful cause that’s what really happens.’
‘There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.’
“When asked by a white reporter if she were trying to be equal with the white man, she replied: “I don’t want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that’ll raise me and that white man up…raise America up.”
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