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
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne 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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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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 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 first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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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 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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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