No man can given anybody his freedom.
STOKELY CARMICHAELBefore a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
More Stokely Carmichael Quotes
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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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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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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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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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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 grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
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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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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
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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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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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Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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