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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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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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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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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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