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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
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
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
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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Belief Growth Hold Hope Myself Place Power Qualification
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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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
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
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
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
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
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women

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