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. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
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… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.” — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
