We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow you know where I got my name.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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