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
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow you know where I got my name.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 you know where I got my name.
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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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