Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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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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