An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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.
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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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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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