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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

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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
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
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
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

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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