Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
Hamer, Fannie Lou. "Address to the National Women's Political Caucus." 10 July 1971, Washington, D.C. Published in The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, edited by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck, University Press of Mississippi, 2011, p. 134.
This was a statement she made when ruling that an employment website in Israel could not run ads stating that "only Jews would be hired". Discrimination in hiring was against Israel's Prohibition of Discrimination Act.. The defendants in this case were Orthodox Jews and the judge went oiut of her way to not only cite the law but ran counter to the moral and ethical teachings of the Israeili prophets
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was also a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who wish to seek election to government office.
