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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

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
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Black Jail Power Prison Way
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 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
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
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
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
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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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White

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