Sick &
Tired!
Advocate for the poor, Civil Rights Activist, she registered and campaigned for others to register to vote, and she was one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Notably, she also fought oppression with her wit. She committed her mind, body and soul to the Civil Rights Movement. Hamer paid the price to empower others, and one day someone will make a movie about her. Below are a few snippets that offer insight into the wisdom, insight and commitment of Fannie Lou Hamer:
“All my life I’ve been sick and tired. Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and
tired.”
If you miss me in the
Freedom fight.
And you can’t find me
nowhere,
Come on over to the
graveyard
I’ll be buried over
there.
“I feel sorry for anybody that could
let hate wrap them up. Ain’t no such
thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God’s face”
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s
free.”
“One day I know the struggle will
change. There’s got to be a change—not
only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people
all over the world.”
In response to the accusation,
“Fannie Lou, you must be with the Left group,” she retorted, “Yes, I’ve been
left four hundred years. Left out.”
Sources
Dance,
Daryl Cumber (ed.). Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor. New York: Norton, 1998.
Fannie
Lou Hamer. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 11:20, Jan 10, 2015,
from http://www.biography.com/people/fannie-lou-hamer-205625.
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