There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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