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Stokely Carmichael Quotes

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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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 Quotes) Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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.  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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 Quotes) Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) A man is born free  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) Now you know where I got my name  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) No man can given anybody his freedom  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) The first need of a free people is to define their own terms  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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 Quotes) Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) 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 Quotes) One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes) If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power  (Stokely Carmichael Quotes)
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