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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWhat a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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 does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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