"In 1961, civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a disabled Black woman, was forcibly sterilized without her knowledge; t…"

"It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we ca…"

"With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, …"

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

"It's time for America to get right."

"I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was g…"

"You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap."

"When they asked for those to raise their hands who'd go down to the courthouse the next day, I raised mine. Had it up…"

"Fanny Lou Hamer of Mississippi, a woman of great dignity and natural eloquence"

"They were remarkable women and deserve to be remembered that way."