Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

“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...”

“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 ...”

“White liberals are always saying, "What can we do? I mean, theyre 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...”

“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 ...”

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

“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.”

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

“We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”

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

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

“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 m...”

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

“Ultimately, the economic foundations of this country must be shaken if black people are to control their lives. The colonies of the United States—and this includes the black ghettoes within its bor...”

“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...”

“The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!”

“Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. I...”

“The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is...”

“The position of women in the [civil-rights] movement is prone.”

“Programs do not come out of the minds of any one person or two people such as ourselves, but out of day-to-day work, out of interaction between organizers and the communities in which they work.”

“The whole question of race is one that America would much rather not face honestly and squarely. To some, it is embarrassing; to others, it is inconvenient; to still others, it is confusing. But fo...”