I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - 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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Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

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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. - 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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You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve ― Elon Musk

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It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

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I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom ― Jim Rohn

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