Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELCapitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
STOKELY CARMICHAELIt 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
STOKELY CARMICHAELAn organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
STOKELY CARMICHAELSo 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.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
STOKELY CARMICHAELOne does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThere is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
STOKELY CARMICHAELWe had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
STOKELY CARMICHAELI 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
STOKELY CARMICHAELThere has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
STOKELY CARMICHAELThe only position for women in SNCC is prone.
STOKELY CARMICHAELNo man can given anybody his freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBlack 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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