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

Stokely Carmichael

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
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
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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Beyond Black Claim Community Need Organization Power Slogan Strength Work
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
The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
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Death Decision Ideas Ourselves Place Responsibility
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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Build Country Function Institution Racism
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
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
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
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Conscience Government Law
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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Himself Man Philosophy Raise
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
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System

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

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