Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThere has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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