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Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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 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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish them.
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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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
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

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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