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Stokely Carmichael

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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
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 only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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
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
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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Death End Run Scare Time
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms

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