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  • This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

    Country   Mean   Blood  
  • The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

    "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.
  • Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

  • 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.

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

    Dog   Gun   Leader  
  • No man can given anybody his freedom.

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

  • We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

    Courage   Justice   Enemy  
  • Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

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

    Kings   Heart   Order  
    YouTube Channel "StefaniaStudio"/"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975", www.youtube.com. March 23, 2011.
  • Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

    Country   Racism   Racist  
    Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
  • I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

    Country   Hippie   Rights  
    Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
  • The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

  • What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

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

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

    Society   Groups   Firsts  
  • I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power

    Stokely Carmichael (1971). “Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism”, Random House (NY)
  • One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

    Change   Fighting   Doe  
    Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (2007). “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism”, p.110, Chicago Review Press
  • 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 (1966). “What we want”
  • There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

    Rights   Voice   Movement  
    Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
  • Now you know where I got my name.

    Names   Surfing   Knows  
  • One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

    Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
  • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

  • The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

    Secret   Way   No Fear  
  • 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.

    Moving   Men   White  
    Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
  • An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

    Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
  • It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

  • The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

    Sncc   Position  
  • 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

    White   People   Black  
    Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
  • The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

    Freedom   People   Needs  
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    Stokely Carmichael

    • Born: June 29, 1941
    • Died: November 15, 1998
    • Occupation: Activist