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

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

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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

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

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

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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.

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Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

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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.

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