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Quote by Stokely Carmichael
I knew that I could vote and that that wasnt a privilege it was my

I knew that I could vote and that that wasnt a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. – Stokely Carmichael

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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. – Stokely Carmichael

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Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. – Stokely Carmichael

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Freedom
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Now is the watchword of the wise. – Proverb

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Im not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

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