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Fannie Lou Hamer: If the white...

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If the white man gives you anything -- just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Source: To Praise Our Bridges, 1967.
-- Fannie Lou Hamer, (Oct 6 1917-1977), US activist; She was a Mississippi sharecropper and organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Party, which challenged the white domination of the Democratic Party.


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