80 Quotes by 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.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

It’s time for America to get right.

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.

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

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.

A black woman’s body was never hers alone.

We didn’t come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn’t come all this way for no two seats, ’cause all of us is tired.

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.