The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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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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