Stokely Carmichael

"You cannot be nonviolent with a man who is determined to kill you."

"We as black people must reassess our own values and see what we are doing to perpetuate our own oppression."

"Power is the ability to define phenomena and make others accept your definition of phenomena."

"When you talk about black power, you're talking about bringing black people together to have a political voice."

"A man who is not afraid is a man who understands his purpose and will pursue it relentlessly."

"Education must teach us not just to make a living but to make a life."

"We need to control our own institutions and our own communities."

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

"Racism is an institution and if you want to eliminate it you have to eliminate the institution."

"Black people in this country have never been given the opportunity to govern themselves."

"We cannot ask people to be nonviolent unless we are also going to be nonviolent with them."

"The problem we have is that we have been conditioned to accept mediocrity."

"Self-determination means we must control our own economic, political and social institutions."

"To hell with integration; we want self-determination."

"You cannot build Black power on a foundation of tokenism and crumbs."

"A man without a purpose is a man without a future."

"We must stop begging this country to do right by us and start demanding what is rightfully ours."

"The white man in America is a segregationist—he has practiced segregation all his life."

"Young people must understand that they have the power to change this nation."

"We need black lawyers, black judges, black policemen, black everything."

"Rhetoric has its place but we need action and results."

"The system is not going to change itself; we have to change it."

"Black consciousness means understanding that we are different and having pride in that difference."

"You must stop loving the oppressor and start loving yourself."

"There is no such thing as equality; there is only power."

"We reject the notion that the Negro should be treated as a white man."

"The struggle for black liberation is a struggle for human dignity."

"A man who cannot stand for something will fall for anything."

"We are not going to beg the white man for anything we deserve."

"Black power means economic power, political power, and military power if necessary."