Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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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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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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