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.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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 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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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