Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Some things I found out in the National Convention I wasn't too glad I did find out. But we will work hard, and it was important to actually really bring this out to the open, the things I will say some people knew about and some people didn't; this stuff that has been kept under the cover for so many years. Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.
Hamer, Fannie Lou. To Praise Our Bridges: An Autobiography. KIPCO, 1967.
Harding, not the most historically knowledgeable of American Presidents, had forgotten the revolutionary origin of the United States or its drastically experimental nature. It was the fear of Communism and the Russian Revolution that gave revolution a bad name at the time.
However laudable his advocay for America, he did not make a very good diplomat. He didn’t last long at the United Nations but then he never believed that the UN was a worthwhile organization and used his time there, not to try and improve it or us it to American advantage but to attack it and praise America. Most listeners ended up with a lesser view of America but Bolton supports were pleased that he had stood up for America.
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.
