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

Stokely Carmichael

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way

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