The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn’t because of Black Power, isn’t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it’s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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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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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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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