Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamerwas an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth6 October 1917
CountryUnited States of America
You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.
When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.