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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe 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.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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.
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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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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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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 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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