The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe 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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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