Black Power Quotes

• Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

  Whitney M. Young

  Children, Mean, Pride

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1999– ).

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• Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

  Huey Newton

  Destiny, Giving, People

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• We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

  Assata Shakur

  Beautiful, Taken, People

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• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Peace, Freedom, Inspiration

  Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Pain, Disappointment

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• Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Kings, Heart, Order

  YouTube Channel "StefaniaStudio"/"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975", www.youtube.com. March 23, 2011.

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Criminal Mind, Matter

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.372, Ballantine Books

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  Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

  James Brown

  Country, Real, Kids

  James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.175, Head of Zeus

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• Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  White, America, People

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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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Order, White, People

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

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• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Government, Law, Political

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• Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black, Injustice

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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!

  Stokely Carmichael

  Men, White Man, Jail

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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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• In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Black

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.74, Beacon Press

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  Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

  Alice Walker

  Leadership, Peace, Powerful

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.127, Rutgers University Press

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• Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Winning, Views

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• I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Rights, People

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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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• Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping Others, Black, Violence

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• The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  Rights, Black, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  Walter Rodney

  West Indies, America, Black

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