You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.
About this quote
- Attributed to
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Source
- As transcribed in “We're on our way,” Speech before a mass meeting held at the negro Baptist school in Indianola, Mississippi (September 1964)
- Culture / tradition
- African American
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
- Verification
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