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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.

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    ... there is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
    Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

    ... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can’t understand them and they don’t know me and I don’t know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
    —Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

    ... there is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
    Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

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    ... there is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
    —Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)