Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow, 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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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 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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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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