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 More Quotes by Fannie Lou Hamer More Quotes From Fannie Lou Hamer That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. Fannie Lou Hamer face problems you change I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. Fannie Lou Hamer beat know you training 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 rest you tired people Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. Fannie Lou Hamer problems city education wind 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 human nobody never vote On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me. Fannie Lou Hamer fired me bullets home I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back. Fannie Lou Hamer back go know you They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush. Fannie Lou Hamer me you white men I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer know vote trying people I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. Fannie Lou Hamer showing run office people
