I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
STOKELY CARMICHAELGo home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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 time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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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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