Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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