The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
STOKELY CARMICHAELSeems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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 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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
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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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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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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 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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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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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