One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow you know where I got my name.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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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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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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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