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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.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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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.

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