It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.


As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 8, by Hay Mills (1993). Said on September 13, 1965, in a hearing before the United States House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Elections.

Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I...

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I...

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I...

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I...