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

Stokely Carmichael

Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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 speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
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
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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
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

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

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