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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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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Death End Run Scare Time
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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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Freedom Order People Understand
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
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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Black Define Power Question White
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise

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