Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer Courage
Civil Rights Leader, Activist American 1917–1977

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"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
"Nobody's free until everybody's free."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so that other people would be also free."
"You can pray until you faint, but unless you try to do something, the Lord will not help you."

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