Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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 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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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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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