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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Stokely Carmichael

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
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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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
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
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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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass

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