Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

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

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

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

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

Stokely Carmichael

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Stokely Carmichael