Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
Hamer, Fannie Lou. 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. 116.
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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.
