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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

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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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way
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
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
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
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Freedom Order People Understand
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
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable

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