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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

Stokely Carmichael

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 first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power
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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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
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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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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

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