“ Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your su… 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
“ Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. 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
“ 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… 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 is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call the… Stokely Carmichael
“ White liberals are always saying, "What can we do?” I mean, they’re always coming to help black people. I thought of an analogy. If you were walking down the street and a man had a gun on another man… Stokely Carmichael
