What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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!
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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 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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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