Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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