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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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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.

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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

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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.

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No man can given anybody his freedom.

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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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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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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 29th, 1941

Died: November 15th, 1998

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