I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?


Testimony at Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey [August 22, 1964]

Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because ...

I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because ...

I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because ...

I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because ...