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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Stokely Carmichael
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Stokely Carmichael
Age: 57 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 29
Died: 1998
Died: November 15
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Human Rights Activist
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Port-of-Spain
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael
Kwame Ture
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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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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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I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.
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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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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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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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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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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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The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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Now you know where I got my name.
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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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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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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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