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Black Quotes by Stokely Carmichael
- 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…
- 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…
- I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
- 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…
- So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not…
- 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…
- Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are…
- Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
- 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.…
- An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with…
- Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
- 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…
- We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa