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There can be no social order without social justice.

— Charles V. Hamilton Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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

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)

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

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What the master giveth, the master can take away.

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