We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
STOKELY CARMICHAELLeaders 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.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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