Racism Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

14 Racism quotes by Stokely Carmichael

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Stokely Carmichael’s 14 short statements on racism focus on empowerment and resistance, delivering a punchy call to awareness. Though the collection is modest, each line carries the urgency of his activist spirit.

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It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community.…

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I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take…

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The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are…

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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.…

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One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could…

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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…

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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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Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

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Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that…

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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…

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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide…

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“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the…

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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…

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A man is born free.

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

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

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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…

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“The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.”

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“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white…

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