Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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