Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
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.
Power is the ability to get things done.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.