We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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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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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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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