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Stokely Carmichael

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
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
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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

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