Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNo man can given anybody his freedom.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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