Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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• I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Kids
  • America
  • Question