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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELCapitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
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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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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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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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