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Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

1917–1977 United States

Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977), born Fannie Lou Townsend, was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

United States
Activists
Politicians

Also known as: Hamer, Fannie Lou

Random Fannie Lou Hamer quote

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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens.

It's time for America to get right.

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fannie Lou Hamer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.