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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

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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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