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
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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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 only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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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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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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