Stokely Carmichael: White

Stokely Carmichael was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on white.
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“They Head Start, Upward Lift, Bootstrap, and Upward Bound us into white society, 'cause they don’t want to face the real problem which is a man is poor for one reason and one reason only: 'cause he does not have money -- period. If you want to get rid of poverty, you give people money -- period.”

Stokely Carmichael

" Black Power http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/scarmichael.html" Speech at University of California, Berkeley, October 29, 1966

Money , People , Problem

“The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!”

Stokely Carmichael

addressing a crowd alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others during the March Against Fear, 1966, Link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/filmmore/pt.html

Time , Dead

“When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city—Birmingham, Alabama—five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism.”

Stokely Carmichael

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, 1967, p. 4, co-authored with Charles V. Hamilton

Communication , Baby , Children , Food