The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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