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Stokely Carmichael quotes - page 2
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
Stokely Carmichael
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.
Stokely Carmichael
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 borders, north and south-must be liberated. For a century, this nation has been like an octopus of exploitation, its tentacles stretching from Mississippi and Harlem to South America, the Middle East, southern Africa, and Vietnam; the form of exploitation varies from area to area but the essential result has been the same-a powerful few have been maintained and enriched at the expense of the poor and voiceless colored masses. This pattern must be broken.
Stokely Carmichael
When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city-Birmingham, Alabama-five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism.
Stokely Carmichael
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
Stokely Carmichael
A man is born free.
Stokely Carmichael
We are revolutionaries.
Stokely Carmichael
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.
Stokely Carmichael
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 does not have money -- period. If you want to get rid of poverty, you give people money -- period.
Stokely Carmichael
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