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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
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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Black Define Power Question White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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

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