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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe only position for women in SNCC is prone.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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