We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Stokely CarmichaelThe time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
Stokely CarmichaelAn 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
Stokely CarmichaelThere has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Stokely Carmichael