America Quote by Stokely Carmichael

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…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

— Huey Newton

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

— Anonymous

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…

— Whitney M. Young

It's crazy; in the States, people think the black power movement drew inspiration from Africa. All these Americans come over here looking for awareness.…

— Fela Kuti

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with…

— Charles Evers

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

— Cleveland Sellers

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's…

— Courtney A. Kemp

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

— Norman Podhoretz

'Power' is not a black show. It's not a white show. It's a New York show.

— Courtney A. Kemp

“By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in…

— Junius Williams