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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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
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 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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
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
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
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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

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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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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