Famous quotes by Activists

"White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather, not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"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, Activist

"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried, I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"We are revolutionaries"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

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

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"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, Activist

"A man is born free"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"No man can given anybody his freedom"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

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