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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Stokely Carmichael

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.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL

Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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

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