80 Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

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.

We are here to work side-by-side with this “black” man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don’t want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that’ll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

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.

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

You know I’m not hung up on this liberating myself from the “black” man – I’m not going to try that thing.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed.

I don’t want equal rights with the white man; if I did, I’d be a thief and a murderer.

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.