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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!

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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 only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
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
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

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