Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
STOKELY CARMICHAELBefore a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
STOKELY CARMICHAELCapitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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
STOKELY CARMICHAELAn 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
STOKELY CARMICHAELI place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
STOKELY CARMICHAELBlack Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
STOKELY CARMICHAELIf 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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