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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.

Stokely Carmichael

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan
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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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

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