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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!

Stokely Carmichael

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
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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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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

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