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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
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Anything
Right
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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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Change
Over
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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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Carried
Questions
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Nobody's free until everybody's free. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Everybody's
Free
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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. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Home
Sixteen
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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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Problems
Mississippi
Fannie Lou Hamer
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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? - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Decent
Threatened
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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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Blood
Represents
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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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Oppression
Trying
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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. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Register
Before
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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Register
People
Fannie Lou Hamer
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It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Eighteen
Policemen
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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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Freedom
Inches
Fannie Lou Hamer
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. - Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping Quotes
Something
Political
Deng Xiaoping
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The minority yields to the majority! - Deng Xiaoping
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Majority
Yields
Deng Xiaoping
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. - Deng Xiaoping
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Catches
Black
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Let some people get rich first. - Deng Xiaoping
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Rich
People
Deng Xiaoping
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. - Deng Xiaoping
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Transform
Return
Deng Xiaoping
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Seek truth from facts. - Deng Xiaoping
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Facts
Truth
Deng Xiaoping
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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. - Deng Xiaoping
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Step
Helicopter
Deng Xiaoping