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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Stokely Carmichael

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
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
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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
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
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself
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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City Civil Failure Occur Pass Rebel Right
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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Black Jail Power Prison Way

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