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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.

Stokely Carmichael

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
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
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
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon

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