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!
STOKELY CARMICHAELWhat a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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