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Top 30 Stokely Carmichael Quotes (2025 Update)

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!”

1. “Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”

2. “There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.”

3. “One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.”

4. “What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”

5. “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”

— Stokely Carmichael

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

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

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.”

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

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.”

9. “Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.”

10. “Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.”

11. “There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.”

12. “The masses don’t shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.”

13. “The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power.”

14. “I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.”

15. “An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “The only position for women in SNCC is prone.”

17. “The only position for women in SNCC is prone.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.”

18. “The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Now you know where I got my name.”

19. “Now you know where I got my name.”

— Stokely Carmichael

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.”

20. “Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”

22. “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”

23. “We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”

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

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property. It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. The creation of new values means the establishment of a society based on free people, not free enterprise.”

25. “Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property. It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. The creation of new values means the establishment of a society based on free people, not free enterprise.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “No man can given anybody his freedom.”

26. “No man can given anybody his freedom.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Unfortunately in this essay we can not discuss the history and development of Pan-Africanism. That task was undertaken by Mr. Vincent Bakpetu Thompson in his excellent book Africa and Unity: The Evolution of Pan-Africanism.”

27. “Unfortunately in this essay we can not discuss the history and development of Pan-Africanism. That task was undertaken by Mr. Vincent Bakpetu Thompson in his excellent book Africa and Unity: The Evolution of Pan-Africanism.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”

28. “Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Quote: “In struggle one not only fights against something – injustice, oppression – but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That’s the other part of the equation.”

30. “In struggle one not only fights against something – injustice, oppression – but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That’s the other part of the equation.”

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Stokely Carmichael Quote: “I’m convinced that the deck is so stacked that only a certain number can get through. I happened to be one of that certain number. That’s all.”

31. “I’m convinced that the deck is so stacked that only a certain number can get through. I happened to be one of that certain number. That’s all.”

— Stokely Carmichael

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