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.


As quoted in Freedomways, p. 232 (Second quarter, 1965).

Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...