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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“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)
“Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa.... We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bought them; white people changed their names ... my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—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)
“It’s time for America to get right.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)