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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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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