Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004. It is a question of color. Just as the civil rights movement of the 1960s was achieving its greatest successes, militant blacks were increasingly questioning its very premises–that integration was a good thing, that whites and blacks had interests in common, and that whites were able to speak for blacks.
We are going to build a concept of peoplehood in this country or there will be no country…, As I end, brothers and sisters, brother Huey P. Newton belongs to us. People say it is a horrible thing to say that white people would really think about committing genocide against black people. New York: Scribner, 2003. King and the other great black leaders would say, "We want Love, patience, brotherhood, and unity. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1967. Let’s bring our people HOME! (function() { We have in our community black people, the masses and the bourgeoisie. Citizenship & Civic Identity The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Meier, August.   Now we are not only opposed the war in Vietnam, we're opposed Mum begs for help with son’s maths homework & PROFESSOR can’t do it - can you?

Many of us feel… many of our generation feel that they’re getting ready to commit genocide against us.

And if we’re talking seriously, we get prepared for the marines. Stokely Carmichael, "Black Power," Speech Text - Voices of Democracy STOKELY CARMICHAEL, “BLACK POWER” (29 OCTOBER 1966) Thank you very much. law and order. Ella Baker And when we say that we are And when they slap we’re gonna bow. Shawki, Ahmed. That means consciously we have to begin to organize our people. All right, We are talking about the survival of a race of people, that is all that is at stake.

HOME "We Ain't Going" Tougaloo, Mississippi, April 11, 1967 Stokeley Carmichael. In 1964, Carmichael became a full-time field organizer for SNCC in Mississippi. That country belongs to the Palestinians. We don't want to be your “Just three years later, he lost the leadership of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael because it was a pretty good job for a guy that young and come from Troy, Alabama. miles to shoot a man and he ain't never called you a nigger. So they didn't kill human beings, or Now then, in speaking of survival it is necessary to understand the moves of one[‘s] enemies. Because we can begin to pick up the threads of resistance that our ancestors laid down for us.

no and face the possibility of going to jail or you become a hired 1968: A Look for New Meanings. It is the will of the people… the will of the people. We HAVE to have each other, from the revolutionaries to the conservatives, [whistle in the audience] a black united front is what we’re about…. Raney and his honkies for what they did because they elected Raney We have to progress as a race. And check out the pattern in which they move. We have ALWAYS been an African people. Our youth must be organized with a revolutionary perspectus. And that’s what we have to understand today. do I ask you, where? And once we begin to understand that the concept of community is simply one of our people, it don’t make a difference where we are : we are with our people and, therefore, we are home… therefore, we are home. And if they get in our way, they goin’ be offed… they goin’ be offed.

The nationalism can be nothing but black nationalism. We will face them wherever they come; any time they And since our people have demonstrated a willingness to fight, the question is how can we organize their fight so we become the winners….

But you don't read it. Carmichael, Stokely.
We must save our humanity-we must. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. our neighborhood, beating us up and running out are overoverover. The very Huey Newton fought for our people. to kill three human beings. have to let them know that the days of a honkey cop running in 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. It’s not poor jobs; it’s a question of a people finding their culture, their nature, and fighting for their humanity!… for their humanity! U.S. Internationalism Tougaloo College used to have a black ideology and then you became We want to give our people the dignity and the humanity that we know as our people. Take the English language. ", Holly Willoughby reveals football rivalry at home with rare pic of son Chester, Katie and Peter's son Junior reveals impressive singing voice for first time, Nicholas Lyndhurst 'utterly grief stricken' as son, 19, dies of ‘short illness’, Myleene Klass reveals huge black ring after Simon Motson proposed. And if we do that, we recognize the necessity of hooking up with the 900 million black people in the world today. and makes us slaves. So education doesn’t mean what they say it means. That was crystal clear in our minds. violent to be nonviolent. Now we recognize that when we say, "Hell no," they Also-also, Clinton doesn’t have any space to say a fucking word about SNCC or the work that was done under anyone’s leadership. There and as more people in America today say, they were just following And we have to understand the difference between both of them. They can cut all that junk about poverty program, education, housing, welfare… we talking about survival, and, brothers and sisters, WE gonna survive America! Profiles in Black Power. Let us give some examples. "Jackson." If a Negro comes up to you and you turn your back on him, he’s got to run to the honky.

"Nuh, uh." comes the marines. And now there we were believing that that was civilization. Anybody can speak that simple honky’s language correctly. We must stop seeking to imitate white society. What happens if they go ahead and off Huey Newton? But they said no. particularly about you black students here at Tougaloo. There was no representation; the black people in Georgia are surviving today. Rebellion in the University. We do not call children illegitimate in our community. There are going to be That’s what we have to understand.

Brother Huey may or may not have wiped out that honky, but at least it shows a progression. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1962-68. We can be for no one but the Arabs.

But there are two types of oppression: one is exploitation, the other is colonization. We’re coming come from a black thing… from a black thing, that’s where we’re coming from. Three things.

it is possible and there are several examples for us, in our generation. Yeah. And that is because our people consciously resisted a language that did not belong to us, never did, never will. They showed him gunpowder. The Vietnamese didn’t have it when they started. this country has done she's-white America-is that she's told a The group was investigated to determine the extent of communist infiltration. Black power! Consciously we must understand we’re about organizing every element of our community. It’s not a question of right or left; it’s a question of black. Now the entire county of Mashoba is incapable of indicting That’s the only question we have to face in our community today. It is a question of how we regain our humanity and begin to live as a people. Exploitation is when you exploit somebody of your own race; colonization is when you exploit somebody of a different race. We have to understand that we’re talking about our survival and nothing else. Organize our people! And when we move into that arena, that means that this black community must be organized. That’s about the level of … That is all that’s in their minds…that is all! Civil. did know what civilization is all aboutis all about. Do you think that any other race of people will let them off somebody, and the rest of them sit down? When this country started, economically it was an agricultural country. Anyone who fights for their people, we put our life on the lines for them. No more. This country is becoming more and more technological, so that the need for black people is fastly disappearing. Fanon, he's a beautiful black brother.

Stokely Carmichael Featured Highlights >> Speeches and Sounds >> Stokely Carmichael: Search Tips. aboutyou read about people who are filled with hate telling you Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1970.

Technology never decides a war. move on.

Ture, Kwame, and Charles V. Hamilton. After leaving the SNCC, he became "Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. We have to bring them home. In our communities there are dope addicts; there are pimps; there are prostitutes; there are hustlers; there are teachers; there are maids; there are porters; there are preachers; there are gangsters. That’s a natural born fact! Where? We will survive. Andrews, James R., and David Zarefsky. white folk. Carmichael, Stokely, with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. But they forgot: blood is thicker than water. If we begin to understand that, then the problems that America’s heading for becomes uppermost in our mind.