The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe only position for women in SNCC is prone.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The 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.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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