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.
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 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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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!
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