Author Profile
Stokely Carmichael
1941 – 1998 • American • Activist
29
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 29 quotesNow we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.— Stokely Carmichael
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.— Stokely Carmichael
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.— Stokely Carmichael