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Fannie Lou Hamer

I’m showing the people that a Negro can run for office.

– Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

– Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed.

– Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

– Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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