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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

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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
Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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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Freedom Order People Understand
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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

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

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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

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