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

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

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

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

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.