What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

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That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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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.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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God requires you to do what is right. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

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Life is anything but predictable.- Dwayne Johnson

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