One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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