Fannie Lou Hamer

"We're going to make a way out of no way."

"I believe in the goodness of people, even when they've done me wrong."

"My life is a testimony to the power of faith and determination."

"We're not just fighting for ourselves. We're fighting for generations to come."

"I've learned that true strength comes from standing up for what's right."

"The struggle continues, and I'm willing to continue it."

"I believe that this country can be better, and I'm going to work to make it better."

"We've got to love each other and work together to create change."

"I'm not interested in power for power's sake. I'm interested in justice."

"My faith is what keeps me going when everything seems hopeless."

"We're all in this together, and we all have a role to play."

"I've experienced pain and suffering, but I've also experienced joy and love."

"The vote is power, and power is what we need to change things."

"I'm going to keep fighting until I can't fight anymore."

"We believe in freedom, and we're willing to die for it."

"I've learned that change doesn't come easy, but it does come."

"My story is not unique. There are millions of stories like mine."

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we are going to stay in this street until we get what we deserve."

"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

"The only thing they can do is kill me, and it seems they've been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I was born."

"If the name of the game is to survive, then we all have an equal right to survive."

"I question America. Is this 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?"

"We're going to stay here, and we're going to work until we straighten this thing out."

"It's time for something to happen."

"You can pray until you faint, but unless you back it up with action and understanding, don't expect miracles."

"The white man is not going to give up his power to the Negro voluntarily."

"I have suffered hunger. I have suffered pain. But there is only one thing I will not suffer again, and that is to be kept ignorant."

"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 are threatened daily?"

"All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens. And if the price of freedom is death, then nothing could be more reasonable."

"I done tried to tell you about the conditions we live under down in Mississippi, and nothing more could be said than what I said."