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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Stokely Carmichael

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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

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