Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Children, Father, Years

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

• I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. Well, I asked him "how long he thinks we had been getting tired"? I have been tired for 46 years and my parents was tired before me and their parents were tired, and I have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things I would see going on among Negroes that I didn't like and I don't like now.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

• My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  School, Clothes, Years

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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