Stokely Carmichael

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Black Power can be clearly_x000D_ defined for those who do not_x000D_ attach the fears of white America_x000D_ to their questions about it.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only_x000D_ way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over._x000D_ What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

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.

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.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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