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Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Tags: blood, red, black, man

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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
Tags: face, hate, hope, god
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Tags: sick, am, sick-and-tired, being, i-am, tired
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
Tags: will, remember, you, man
We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Tags: rest, tired, people, you
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Tags: human, nobody, vote, never
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