We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
STOKELY CARMICHAELAn organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish them.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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 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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Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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