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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.

Stokely Carmichael

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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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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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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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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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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
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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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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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