Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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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 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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Now you know where I got my name.
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