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)
“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can’t understand them and they don’t know me and I don’t know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I’ve been things and seen places.”
—Harvey Thew, screenwriter, John Bright, screenwriter, and Lowell Sherman. Lady Lou (Mae West)
“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 (1917–1977)