The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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