White 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 every move they made. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn’t go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn’t go back. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
I’d been in jail, and I’d been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to – they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I’d wind up in a soup line there. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
