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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Stokely Carmichael

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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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Freedom Order People Understand
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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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Death End Run Scare Time
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle

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