Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
STOKELY CARMICHAELCapitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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So 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.
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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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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 first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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