The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. – Stokely Carmichael
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. – Stokely Carmichael
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. – Stokely Carmichael
There is a higher law than the law of government. Thats the law of conscience. – Stokely Carmichael
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881