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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 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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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