"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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"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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"No man can given anybody his freedom."

Freedom, Man

"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."

Power, Work, Strength, Community

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

Society, First, Open

"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system."

Capitalism,

"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me."

Time, People, Being, Public

"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."

Time, Privilege, Right, Vote

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

People, Civilrights, Country

"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."

People, Ability, Choice, Rights

"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."

Blood,

"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."

Government, Conscience, Law

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"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Power, Persuasion

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Power, People, Harm

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

Hank Aaron, American Athlete

Power, Weapons

"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Power, Country, Right

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

John Acton, English Historian

Power,

"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."

Gary Ackerman, American Politician

Power,

"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."

Alvin Adams, American Businessman

Power, Help, Rumor

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Power,

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Power,

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Power, Energy, Facts