Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan
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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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