Fannie Lou Hamer

“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

“Nobody's free until everybody's free.”

“If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”

“You can pray until you faint, but if you don't get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.”

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others.”

“Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”

“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?”

“We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.”

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

“The only thing they could do to me was to kill me, and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”

“I question America.”

“A white man's land, a black man's sweat.”

“Christ was a revolutionary, that's what he was.”

“To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where we've had so much injustice.”