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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.

Stokely Carmichael

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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Build Country Function Institution Racism
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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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