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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Stokely Carmichael

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL

Change Himself Liberty Position
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

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