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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

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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 secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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

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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