No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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