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Stokely Carmichael

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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Freedom Order People Understand

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