Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish them.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNo man can given anybody his freedom.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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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 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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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