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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThere has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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 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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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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