Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAELIntegration 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.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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