"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."

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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