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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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Best Content Myself Regret
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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Community Need Organization Talk
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
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Death End Run Scare Time
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
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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Black Define Power Question White
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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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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Breathe Generation Myself Run
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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Man Oppression Power Problem Question Racism White
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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Fear Function Life Secret Way

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