I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
STOKELY CARMICHAELIntegration 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.
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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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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 only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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 first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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