All Stokely Carmichael Quotes
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
Stokely Carmichael
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
Stokely Carmichael
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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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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
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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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
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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.
Stokely Carmichael
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
Stokely Carmichael
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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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Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Stokely Carmichael
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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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