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No man can given anybody his freedom.

Stokely Carmichael

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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
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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Black Define Power Question White
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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 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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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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No man can given anybody his freedom.

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