Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamerwas an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth6 October 1917
CountryUnited States of America
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.
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.
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.
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.
We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,
But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.
You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
It's time for America to get right.
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
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.