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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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