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What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.

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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