"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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Source : Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

Stokely Carmichael

#Organization Quotes #Voice Quotes #Community Quotes

“I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.”
“Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.”
“Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.”
“I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.”
“The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.”
“I am a United States citizen and I vote.”
“It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.”
“I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.”

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