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.
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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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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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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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It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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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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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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If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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