Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael

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

Community

Needs

Organization

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Capitalism

Revolutionary

Stupid

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Beautiful

Daughter

Home

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

Revolutionary

Vote

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

Country

Hippie

Rights

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power

Growth

United States

Unqualified

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Attitude

Men

White Man

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.

Country

Organization

People

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.

Dog

Gun

Leader

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

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Doe

Fighting

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Beautiful

Black

Black Power

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Change

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Country

Daughter

Doe

Dog

Fighting

Generations

Government

Grandfather

Growth

Gun

Hippie

Home

Law

Leader

Men

Needs

No Fear

Organization

People

Philosopher

Political

Position

Privilege

Revolutionary

Rights

Running

Secret

Sncc

Stupid

United States

Unqualified

Vote

Way

White Man

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Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael

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

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

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.

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

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

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.

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.

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

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