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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Stokely Carmichael

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
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
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn’t because of Black Power, isn’t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it’s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society

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