The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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