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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.

Stokely Carmichael

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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL

Fear Function Life Secret Way
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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

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