Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

"It's not about being like the white man. We have our own culture, and we're not going to lose it."

Fannie Lou Hamer
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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