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

Stokely Carmichael

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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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