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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

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Freedom Order People Understand
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 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
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women

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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