Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBefore a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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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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The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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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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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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One 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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So 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.
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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