No man can given anybody his freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNo man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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