Black Power Quotes

21 Black Power quotes by 14 unique authors

• 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
• We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power. — Herb Boyd
• 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
• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. — Barbara Jordan
• Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. — Huey Newton
• Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. — Stokely Carmichael
• 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
• Its time for us to stop and re-define black power. 41 souls murdered in 50 hours. — Kanye West

Who Wrote These Black Power Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 21 Black Power Quotes as follows:

• 4 Black Power Quotes by Stokely Carmichael
• 3 Black Power Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2 Black Power Quotes by Whitney M. Young
• 2 Black Power Quotes by Cleveland Sellers
• 1 Black Power Quote by Walter Rodney
• 1 Black Power Quote by Robert Kennedy
• 1 Black Power Quote by Martin Luther
• 1 Black Power Quote by Kanye West
• 1 Black Power Quote by Huey Newton
• 1 Black Power Quote by Herb Boyd
• 1 Black Power Quote by Dalai Lama
• 1 Black Power Quote by Charles Hamilton Houston
• 1 Black Power Quote by Barbara Jordan
• 1 Black Power Quote by Assata Shakur