The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
-
-
No man can given anybody his freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
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.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
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.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
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!
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
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.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL -
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL