American - Activist | June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998
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.
Stokely Carmichael
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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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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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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
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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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A man is born free.
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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