Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

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 the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

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.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Nobody`s free until everybody`s free.

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.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I`m sick and tired of being sick and tired.