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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

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.
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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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 usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle

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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