"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"

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Source : Stokely Carmichael (1971). “Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism”, Random House (NY)

Stokely Carmichael

#Growth Quotes #Belief Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.”
“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
“What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know that it deals with numbers, figures, with relations, operations, and that its formal procedures involving axioms, proofs, lemmas, theorems have not changed since the time of Archimedes.”
“My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.”
“I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.”
“Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.”
“When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.”

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