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 CARMICHAELThe 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.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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