The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
STOKELY CARMICHAELSo 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne 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.
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
STOKELY CARMICHAELIntegration 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELAn 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
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNow you know where I got my name.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOur noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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 CARMICHAELGo home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBlack Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWhat a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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