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

Stokely Carmichael

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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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
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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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
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
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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Death End Run Scare Time

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

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