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

Stokely Carmichael

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL

Breathe Generation Myself Run
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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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
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
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Freedom Order People Understand
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
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
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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Economics Known Myself Privilege Right Vote
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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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
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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Ability Allow Himself Live Man People Right
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Benefit Blood Individual Mass
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
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
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man

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