I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
STOKELY CARMICHAELGo home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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