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Top 30 Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes (2025 Update)

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

3. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “It’s time for America to get right.”

6. “It’s time for America to get right.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”

8. “When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “You don’t have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.”

10. “Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?”

12. “If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”

13. “If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “A black woman’s body was never hers alone.”

15. “A black woman’s body was never hers alone.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”

17. “I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “I don’t want equal rights with the white man; if I did, I’d be a thief and a murderer.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”

20. “Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.”

21. “We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.”

25. “Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “If this is a Great Society, I’d hate to see a bad one.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.”

27. “To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed.”

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”

31. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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