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Stokely Carmichael

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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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
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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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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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Black Define Power Question White
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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Freedom Order People Understand
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women

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