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

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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 noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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

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