Stokely Carmichael

“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.”

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

“A man is born free.”

“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.”

“The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.”

“We are revolutionaries.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”