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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Stokely Carmichael

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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
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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Freedom Order People Understand
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
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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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon

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