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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

Freedom, Giving, Grow, Land, Men
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We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

Black, Bring, Man, Men, People

I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.

Aware, People, Press, Remember, Said, Towns

You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap. " And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

God, Men, One Day, Reap, Scripture

The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.

Eight, June, Morning, Party, State

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

America, Name, Names, Sold, White
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