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

White liberals are always saying, "What can we do?” I mean, they’re always coming to help black peop...

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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...

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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

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

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

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States...

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

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

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

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work t...

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Stokely Carmichael

Activist

Born: 1941-06-29

Died: 1998-11-15

Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a prominent American figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. He founded the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and finally as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).More