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

Stokely Carmichael

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home 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
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
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
Integration 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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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

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