Fannie Lou HamerWhen I liberate others, I liberate myself.322Time
Fannie Lou HamerOne 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.378HumanityPolitics
Fannie Lou HamerI always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it woul… ▶301Life
Fannie Lou HamerNo. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise Ameri… ▶346Truth
Fannie Lou HamerThe methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.3710Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerBut you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.358Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerPeople 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.3510Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerI 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.3410Hope
Fannie Lou HamerWe have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the … ▶307HumanityPoliticsReading
Fannie Lou HamerYou can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.3110Life
Fannie Lou HamerWe didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.268Humor
Fannie Lou HamerI guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda … ▶202Time
Fannie Lou HamerIf this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. ✨ The Worker, 13 July 1975258Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerNever to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.182Philosophy
Fannie Lou HamerWe didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.227Philosophy
Fannie Lou HamerThere is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.239Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerIf the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.186Reading
Fannie Lou HamerWith 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. ✨ This… ▶219HumanityReading
Fannie Lou HamerI am sick and tired of being sick and tired. ✨ 'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago by Peter Dreier, www.hu… ▶143Death
Fannie Lou HamerNobody's free until everybody's free. ✨ Nobody's free until everybody's free by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2014.2010Reflection
Fannie Lou HamerA black woman's body was never hers alone.199Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerSometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing… ▶1910TimeTruth
Fannie Lou HamerAll of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, th… ▶136Humanity
Fannie Lou HamerWhite Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched ever… ▶1610Time
Fannie Lou HamerChristianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out ther… ▶1410Humanity
