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No man can given anybody his freedom.

A man is born free.

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.

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

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Stokely Carmichael

Capitalism

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 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.

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.

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

Stokely Carmichael

Blood

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.

Stokely Carmichael

Dogs

Leaders

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

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.

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