Black Power Quotes
21 quotes by 14 authors
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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 Committee; it's not…
— Stokely Carmichael
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We wanted black power to be all things to all people.
— Cleveland Sellers
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Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there…
— Cleveland Sellers
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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with…
— Stokely Carmichael
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It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head…
— Martin Luther
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We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have…
— Assata Shakur
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Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate…
— Whitney M. Young
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t…
— Whitney M. Young
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Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the…
— Walter Rodney
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Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is…
— Dalai Lama
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Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.
— Herb Boyd
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In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United…
— Robert Kennedy
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
— Barbara Jordan
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
— Huey Newton
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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.
— Stokely Carmichael
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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…
— Stokely Carmichael
Who Wrote These Black Power Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 21 Black Power Quotes as follows: