Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Father, Home

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• My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground trying to help feed us for $1.25 a day. She was using an axe, just like a man, and something flew up and hit her in her eye. It eventually caused her to lose both of her eyes and I began to get sicker and sicker of the system there. I used to see my mother wear clothes that would have so many patches on them, they had been done over and over and over again. She would do that but she would try to keep us decent.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Eye, Men

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• My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Sleep, Night

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• I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Firsts, Naked

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• [My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different and when this Movement came to Mississippi I still feel it is one of the greatest things that ever happened because only a person living in the State of Mississippi knows what it is like to suffer; knows what it is like to be hungry; knows what it is like to have no clothing to wear.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Suffering, Trying

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• I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Men, Black

  Freedomways Journal, p.232, Second quarter, 1965.

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