"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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"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.“
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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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"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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"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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