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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

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

Breathe Generation Myself Run
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
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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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