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

Stokely Carmichael

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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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

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