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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

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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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We are revolutionaries.

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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

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Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

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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.

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

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The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 29th, 1941

Died: November 15th, 1998

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