Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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 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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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 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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