Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBlack 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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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 only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn’t because of Black Power, isn’t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it’s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
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