A Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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Fannie Lou Hamer
American - Activist
October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977

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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Carine Roitfeld

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Ogden Nash

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Muhammad Ali

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

John Moody

Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

Wild Bill Hickok

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

Tahir Shah

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Norman Borlaug

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

Christian Louboutin

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Robert M. Pirsig

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