There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
STOKELY CARMICHAELAn 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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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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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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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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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