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

Stokely Carmichael

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Stokely Carmichael
Age: 57 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 29
Died: 1998
Died: November 15
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Politician
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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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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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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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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The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
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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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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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No man can given anybody his freedom.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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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One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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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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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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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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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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