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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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 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
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
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

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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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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