There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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