Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977

Topics

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Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

PatienceChallengeSpaceGiftYou

There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

John Hurt

ChangeScienceWaitingDoingYouGo

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

Matthew Lewis

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When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

Matt Lauer

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The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

Ann Leckie

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'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

Jeff Lemire

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When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

Amanda Seyfried

TogetherGet TogetherYouYoungHard

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

Suki Waterhouse

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With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

Rory O'Malley

HumorDramaIrishThings

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.

Robert Wilson

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It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

Robert Zoellick

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Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.

Rudolf Steiner

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