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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael, June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a prominent organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending Howard University. He eventually developed the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and lastly as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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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.

Distinguish, Dog, Dogs, Gun, Guns, Leader

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Conscience, Government, Higher, Law, Political

Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Heart, Kings, Nonviolent, Order, Policy, Suffering

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Beautiful, Black, Broad, Hair

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.

Privilege, Vote, Revolutionary, Jailed, Killed

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Bill, Civil, Country, Hippie, Rights, White

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

Community, Make, Organization, Position, Significance, Voice

This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U. S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

Africa, Country, Mean, People, Pie

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Change, Doe, Fighting, Influence, Leave

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Fear, Function, No Fear, Secret, Way

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Dead, Running, Scared, Tell, White

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.

Choice, Integration, Men, Moving, Rights, White

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Claims, Community, Needs, Organization, Tone

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

Position, Prone, Sncc, Women

The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

Che, Defeat, Essence, Fighting, Imperialism, Responsibility

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.

Ghetto, Militancy, Organization, Struggle, Urban

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Majors, No Regrets, Regret, Regrets, Say, Usually

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Generations, Grandfather, Grandfathers, Run, Running

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Adapted, Civil, Rights, Tone, Voice

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

White, America, Black, Defined, Power, Attach

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