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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

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
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
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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
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
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 masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women

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