Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

"Queater, there is something you must know. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part."

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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