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!
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
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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 speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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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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