Stokely Carmichael Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”