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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.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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