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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Stokely Carmichael

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
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
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish them.
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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
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
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
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

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