"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.“

-Stokely Carmichael

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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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"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

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"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."

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

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"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."

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

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