"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
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"The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.“
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"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."
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"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."
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"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."
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"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."
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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
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