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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

Stokely Carmichael

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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Build Country Function Institution Racism
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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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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