Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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