We cannot Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

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

— Stokely Carmichael

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

A man is born free.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Stokely Carmichael

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

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

— Stokely Carmichael

“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

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

— Stokely Carmichael

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

— Stokely Carmichael

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…

— Stokely Carmichael