Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. (Stokely Carmichael)
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. (Stokely Carmichael)
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. (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 caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power. (Stokely Carmichael)
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. (Stokely Carmichael)
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him. (Stokely Carmichael)
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. (Stokely Carmichael)
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. (Stokely Carmichael)
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. (Stokely Carmichael)
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. (Stokely Carmichael)
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. (Stokely Carmichael)
In a sense, I blame ourselves - together with the mass media - for what has happened in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha. (Stokely Carmichael)
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