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Stokely Carmichael
June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

   

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

   

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