If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight

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

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Fannie Lou Hamer

American - Activist October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977

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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

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

Fannie Lou Hamer

On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

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