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

Stokely Carmichael

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Stokely Carmichael

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

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Stokely Carmichael

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Stokely Carmichael

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

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

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

Stokely Carmichael

A man is born free.

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

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

Stokely Carmichael