Now you know where I got my name.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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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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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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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 philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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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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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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