Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

• 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

  Dios, Cristiano, Oración

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  Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, Religious, Fall

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• Nobody's free until everybody's free.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Inspiring, Peace, Freedom

  "Nobody's free until everybody's free" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Cuando me libero, libero a los demás. Si no hablas claro, nadie hablará claro por ti.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Speaks Out, Speak, Ifs

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  No olvidar nunca de dónde venimos y alabar siempre los puentes que nos han llevado.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Bridges, Forget, Praise

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• El cristianismo es preocuparse por los demás, no construir una iglesia de un millón de dólares mientras la gente se muere de hambre a la vuelta de la esquina. Cristo fue una persona revolucionaria, allí donde ocurría. Eso es Dios, y de ahí saco mi fuerza.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Church, Dollars

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• We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he going to give us jobs-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

  Jobs, Children, Winning

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• Tanto si tienes un doctorado como si no, estamos juntos en esta bolsa. Y seas de Morehouse o de Nohouse, estamos juntas en esta bolsa. No para luchar para intentar liberarnos de los hombres -éste es otro truco para que nos peleemos entre nosotras- sino para trabajar juntas con el hombre negro, entonces tendremos más posibilidades de actuar como seres humanos, y de ser tratadas como seres humanos en nuestra sociedad enferma.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Fighting, Men, Sick

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• Estoy harto de estar harto.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mean, Order, Law

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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

  Sorry, Hate, Faces

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• I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Father, Home

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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• 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, Cracks, Causes

  "This Little Light of Mine". Book by Hay Mills, ch. 8, 1993.

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• If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Today, Ifs, I Can

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• I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Trying, Littles, Scared

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• Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Hate, People, Miserable

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• It's time for America to get right.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  América

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• When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Justice, Diversity, Social Justice

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• You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

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• If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Hate, Great Society, Ifs

  The Worker, 13 July 1975

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• The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper. It doesn't really mean anything to us. The only way we can make this thing a reality in America is to do all we can to destroy this system and bring this out to the light that has been under the cover all these years.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mean, Home, Reality

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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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

  People, Three, Movement

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• One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Struggle, People, One Day

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• Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  America, Upset, World

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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• This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, Years

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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