Kwame Ture was a prominent African-American organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Profoundly inspirational Stokely Carmichael quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous Stokely Carmichael Quotes
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more. Stokely Carmichael
A man is born free. Stokely Carmichael
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. Stokely Carmichael
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more. Stokely Carmichael
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. Stokely Carmichael
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. Stokely Carmichael
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. Stokely Carmichael
The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious. Stokely Carmichael
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. Stokely Carmichael
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function. Stokely Carmichael
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. Stokely Carmichael
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. Stokely Carmichael
We are revolutionaries. Stokely Carmichael
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. Stokely Carmichael
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Stokely Carmichael
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about. Stokely Carmichael
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent. Stokely Carmichael
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. Stokely Carmichael
The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function. Stokely Carmichael
The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals. Stokely Carmichael
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. Stokely Carmichael
Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful. Stokely Carmichael
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. Stokely Carmichael
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. Stokely Carmichael
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. Stokely Carmichael
I’m convinced that the deck is so stacked that only a certain number can get through. I happened to be one of that certain number. That’s all. Stokely Carmichael
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. Stokely Carmichael
In struggle one not only fights against something injustice, oppression but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That’s the other part of the equation. Stokely Carmichael
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. Stokely Carmichael
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Stokely Carmichael
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. Stokely Carmichael
No man can give anybody his freedom. Stokely Carmichael
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn’t because of Black Power, isn’t because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it’s not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. Stokely Carmichael
They Head Start, Upward Lift, Bootstrap, and Upward Bound us into white society, cause they don’t want to face the real problem which is a man is poor for one reason and one reason only cause he does not have money period. If you want to get rid of poverty, you give people money period. Stokely Carmichael
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. Stokely Carmichael
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. Stokely Carmichael
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. Stokely Carmichael
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism. Stokely Carmichael
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. Stokely Carmichael
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. Stokely Carmichael
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
Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude. Stokely Carmichael
No man can given anybody his freedom. Stokely Carmichael
You may enslave a man after he is born free. And that is in fact what this country does. It enslaves black people after they’re born. Stokely Carmichael
I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets. Stokely Carmichael
Poverty is well calculated in this country. And the reason why the poverty program won’t work is because the calculators of poverty are administering it. Stokely Carmichael
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. Stokely Carmichael
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
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. Stokely Carmichael
We are against the draft. No man has the right to take a man for two years and train him to be a killer. A man should decide what he wants to do with his life. Stokely Carmichael
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they’re built upon racism. Stokely Carmichael
