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

Stokely Carmichael

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan
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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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 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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
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
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
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret

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