An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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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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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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