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Stokely Carmichael on History

1941–1998 Trinidad and Tobago

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The capitalist press simply records history, it never makes it; only the masses make history!

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

History is the unbroken march of struggle to advance humanity. Thus all struggles are connected, some more strongly than others.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

History is. We cannot make it otherwise.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Revolutionary history shows that the People do not nurse their wounds. After defeat, they begin immediately planning the next step in the forward ever march.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Authors make errors, history, does not!

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Only the masses make history!

We say, “If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.” We must precisely state that what we repeat is not history but our errors under ever-changing material conditions. History does not repeat itself; it cannot. Nothing can. The first law of the universe is everything changes, all the time. Only those who see history as events and not as a process can make this error.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stokely Carmichael (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.