Fred Shuttlesworth Quote

Y'all think it's a fire in here? You know there ain't no fire here. The kind of fire we have in here you can't put out with hoses and axes!


Statement to firemen who forced his congregation to evacuate St. James Baptist Church (1959)


Y'all think it's a fire in here? You know there ain't no fire here. The kind of fire we have in here you can't put out with hoses and axes!

Y'all think it's a fire in here? You know there ain't no fire here. The kind of fire we have in here you can't put out with hoses and axes!

Y'all think it's a fire in here? You know there ain't no fire here. The kind of fire we have in here you can't put out with hoses and axes!

Y'all think it's a fire in here? You know there ain't no fire here. The kind of fire we have in here you can't put out with hoses and axes!