Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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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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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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