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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White

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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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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