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Stokely Carmichael

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 ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
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Black Jail Power Prison Way
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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

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