Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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