Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

"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?"

Fannie Lou Hamer Fear
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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