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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

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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
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

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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