The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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