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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… — 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… — Cleveland Sellers
• An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide… — Stokely Carmichael
• It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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