We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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I 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
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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