“The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper.” PeopleWorldFeelsMeanWholeHomeAmericaBlackLandPaperBraveWhole WorldUpsetBlack PeopleMississippiLand Of The Free Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the fact that America is NOT the "land of the free and the home of the brave."” KnowsMenGivingMadeFactsHomeAmericaReadingAsksLandHe ManPaperSickBraveAnother TimeByronLand Of The Free Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"” PeopleGivingI CanFactsHomeWould BeKidsAmericaMotherFatherBlackRaceDemocracyLandChinaChineseEtcBlack PeopleMother And FatherMayflower Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."” PeopleWorldWantMeanDoneShowsHomeAmericaLawSawsOne ThingStreetsLandTearsMountainDown AndBraveChicagoMy SisterUrbanRenewalIn-lawsVisitingParkingRemovalDemonstratingParking LotLand Of The FreeSister In LawUrban Renewal Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!” YearsAmericaCultureThreeLanguageNationsLandHundredSlaveryChainsMules Author:Malcolm X
“The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.” MenAmericaBlackModernLandTypeJewStrangerRejectedBondagePharaohs Author:Malcolm X
“America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.” WorldAmericaHalfLandBrotherUnited States Of AmericaGood And Bad Author:Philip James Bailey