Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
Fannie Lou HamerMy parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
Fannie Lou HamerThere is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
Fannie Lou HamerThe methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.
Fannie Lou Hamer