The best Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

The best Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

Martin Luther King

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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.

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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!

Francis Scott Key - Star-Spangled Banner

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People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

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Freedom Slavery

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

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Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Chadwick Boseman

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Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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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.

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

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

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