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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Stokely Carmichael

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
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
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
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
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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Black Define Power Question White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White

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