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Quotes from Black Power: The Politics of Liberation — Stokely Carmichael

1941–1998 Trinidad and Tobago

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“The law” became a convenient tool to be used by illegal masters when black people sought to move.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The social effects of colonialism are to degrade and to dehumanize the subjected black man.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The U.S.A. is a settler-colony; only the indigenous people are its just owners.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The time is long overdue for the black community to redefine itself, set forth new values and goals, and organize around them.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The universal law of human nature: Where there is oppression there is resistance, and “where oppression grows, resistance grows.”

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The task of imperialism is to divide and rule, isolate and dominate.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Capitalism does not lie some of the time, it lies all of the time.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Revolutionaries do not take to the path of spilling blood easily.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Those of us who survive must indeed be a tough people.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

There can be no social order without social justice.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

What the master giveth, the master can take away.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The black people should create rather than imitate—create new forms which are politically inclusive rather than imitate old racist forms which are politically exclusive.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

The two major political parties in this country have become non-viable entities for the legitimate representation of the real needs of masses—especially blacks—in this country.

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)

It is only mass struggle that advances us and only when the masses advance do we advance.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

To black Africans, the word “Uhuru” means “freedom,” but they had to fight the white colonizers for the right to use the term.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

This country is known by its cities: those amazing aggregations of people and housing, offices and factories, which constitute the heart of our civilization, the nerve center of our collective being.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

History is. We cannot make it otherwise.

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

Attribution

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