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 Read Quote
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he’d taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
That’s why I want to change Mississippi. You don’t run away from problems – you just face them. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
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. Fannie Lou Hamer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
