Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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