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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
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 noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
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
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
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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Black Define Power Question 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
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle

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