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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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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Black Define Power Question White
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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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Freedom Order People Understand
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
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
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
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
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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

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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