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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Stokely Carmichael

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise

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