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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.

Stokely Carmichael

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
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
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 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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.

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