The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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Integration 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.
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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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