66 Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

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

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

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 maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

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

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

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

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.