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

Stokely Carmichael

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
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
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
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
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn’t because of Black Power, isn’t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it’s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
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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