Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNo man can given anybody his freedom.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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 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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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.
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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 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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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