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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

The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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 were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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
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
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
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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
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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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
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

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