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

Stokely Carmichael

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
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
Now you know where I got my name.
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Myself Name Yourself
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
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
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
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 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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Death End Run Scare Time
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Audience Civil Liberty Movement Rights White
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Position Women
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
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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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
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

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