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. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

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One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. - Gary Ackerman

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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. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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