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.
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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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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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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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