Stokely Carmichael Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  White, America, Black

  Stokely Carmichael (1971). “Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism”, Random House (NY)

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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

  Stokely Carmichael

  Organization, Voice, Community

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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

  Stokely Carmichael

  Regret, No Regrets, Majors

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• Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Society, Groups, Firsts

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Courage, Justice, Enemy

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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

  Stokely Carmichael

  White, People, Black

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

  Stokely Carmichael

  Stupid, Revolutionary, Capitalism

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• There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Rights, Voice, Movement

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Dog, Gun, Leader

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• The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Sncc, Position

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Moving, Men, White

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Rights, Cities, Black

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Men, Philosopher, Black Power

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• Now you know where I got my name.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Names, Surfing, Knows

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