I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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