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"An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."
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"All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God."
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"Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!"
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"Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!"
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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."
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"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."
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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."
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"Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism."
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"No man can given anybody his freedom."
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"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system."
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"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."
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"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
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