American - Activist | October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977
There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
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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.
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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?
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.
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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.
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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.
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I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.
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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.
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Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.
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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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