Fannie Lou Hamer: "Saya ingat, suatu kali, seorang pria datang kepada...

"Saya ingat, suatu kali, seorang pria datang kepada saya setelah para siswa mulai bekerja di Mississippi dan dia berkata orang-orang kulit putih mulai lelah dan mereka menjadi tegang dan segala sesuatu mungkin terjadi. Yah, saya bertanya kepadanya, "Berapa lama dia pikir kita sudah lelah"? Saya telah lelah selama 46 tahun dan orang tua saya sudah lelah sebelum saya dan orang tua mereka sudah lelah, dan saya selalu ingin melakukan sesuatu yang akan membantu beberapa hal yang saya lihat terjadi di antara orang Negro yang tidak saya sukai dan saya tidak suka sekarang."

--- Fannie Lou Hamer

Versi Bahasa Inggris

I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. Well, I asked him "how long he thinks we had been getting tired"? I have been tired for 46 years and my parents was tired before me and their parents were tired, and I have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things I would see going on among Negroes that I didn't like and I don't like now.