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Stokely Carmichael Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Secret, Life, Fearless, function, Living Without Fear
“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 caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Black Power, Activism, Student Conference
“There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Civil Right, Movement, Liberalism, White power, audience
“The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Philosophy, Albert Camus, Sartre, Questioning, Condemnation
“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 call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Black People, Unity, Call to Unite, Community, Lead, Goals
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”
— Stokely Carmichael, Black Power
Tagged: Civil Rights, Law, Bill, racism
“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Grandfathers, Fear, Freedom, voice, New Generation, Fighting Back
“There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Law, Higher Law, Government Law, Conscience
“In a sense, I blame ourselves - together with the mass media - for what has happened in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha.”
— Stokely Carmichael, What We Want
Tagged: Mass Media, racism, Blame
“I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a priviledge; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.”
— Stokely Carmichael, Speech at University of California, Berkeley
Tagged: vote, Priviledge, rights
“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. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.”
— Stokely Carmichael, Black Power
Tagged: racism, Black People, rights, Inequality
“A man is born free.”
— Stokely Carmichael, Black Power
Tagged: Man, Freedom, Born To Be Free
“We are revolutionaries.”
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Activism, Revolutionaries, Revolution, Power
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