The best Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

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.

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.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Mississippi - and that's pretty much the same thing.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Not only are you wrong... but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatsky, you are an American.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

People learn to love their chains.

In the end, what seperates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, a slave obeys.

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

A man, slave to gold, holds a whip and beats the slave he bought with that gold as if to claim he is the master. He just doesn't see it for himself. Every living human being is a slave to something.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.

Jimmy has the work ethic of an immigrant and the personal wealth of the country that immigrant had to flee.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.