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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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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Black Define Power Question White
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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Death End Run Scare Time
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
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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
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

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