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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

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
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
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 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
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself

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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