Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

About Fannie Lou Hamer:

Fannie Lou Hamer was 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 (SNCC), 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.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Fannie Lou Hamer

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Author Bio

  • NameFannie Lou Hamer
  • DescriptionAmerican civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977)
  • BornOctober 6, 1917
  • DiedMarch 14, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame