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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThere is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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