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
STOKELY CARMICHAELBefore a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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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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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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