Quotes of Fannie Lou Hamer
"We 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 when all of us is tired."
"All my life I've been sick and tired. Now I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
"Nobody's free until everybody's free."
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“... there is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
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—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
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“... there is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)