A white man killed the mules ...

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
 Fannie Lou Hamer

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Quotes from the same author

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
 Fannie Lou Hamer
We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground trying to help feed us for $1.25 a day. She was using an axe, just like a man, and something flew up and hit her in her eye. It eventually caused her to lose both of her eyes and I began to get sicker and sicker of the system there. I used to see my mother wear clothes that would have so many patches on them, they had been done over and over and over again. She would do that but she would try to keep us decent.
 Fannie Lou Hamer
My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.
 Fannie Lou Hamer
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
 Fannie Lou Hamer
My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
 Fannie Lou Hamer