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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: America Because Beings Brave Daily Decent Free Home Hooks Human Human Beings Land Live Lives Off Our Our Lives Sleep Threatened Want Where

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I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: Away Change Face Just Mississippi Problems Run Them Want Why You

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I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: Anybody Could Face Feel God Hate Hope See Sorry Them Thing Up Wrap I Feel I Can

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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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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.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: About Before Beings Could Ever How Human Human Beings Knew Never Nobody Our Register Rights Talked Us Vote

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We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: About Anything Because Even Fields Flat Get Going Had Heard Here Know Land Less Much Other Out People Places Play Radio Rest See State Tired Too Vote Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 6th, 1917

Died: March 14th, 1977

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