Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes.

I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn'

I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn’t go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn’t go back.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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.
Fannie Lou Hamer
If this is a Great Society, I’d hate to see a bad one.
Fannie Lou Hamer
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
Fannie Lou Hamer
You don’t have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
Fannie Lou Hamer
When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That’s what God is all about, and that’s where I get my strength.
Fannie Lou Hamer
On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Hate won’t only destroy us. It will destroy these people that’s hating as well.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.
Fannie Lou Hamer
If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people m

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
Fannie Lou Hamer
America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.
Fannie Lou Hamer