No man can given anybody his freedom.
From Stokely Carmichael
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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.
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.
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.
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