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

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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