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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

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
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
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
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
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

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