An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBefore a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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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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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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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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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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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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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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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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism.
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