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Stokely Carmichael

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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
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Position Women
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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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Freedom Order People Understand
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret

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