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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.

Stokely Carmichael

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Freedom Order People Understand
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
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Black Define Power Question White
I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
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Black Jail Power Prison Way
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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Build Country Function Institution Racism

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.

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