Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of 11, he graduated from Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 June 1941
CountryUnited States of America
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
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.
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!