Stokely Carmichael Quotes

We are revolutionaries.

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

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

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

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

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

No man can given anybody his freedom.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Now you know where I got my name.

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

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

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

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

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

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.

A man is born free.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

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

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.