There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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