Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp {as a child she contracted polio}. She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!
( Howard Zinn )
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