Home / Topics / Black Power Quotes

Black Power Quotes

Browse 65 quotes about Black Power.

Related topics

Black Power Quotes

“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”

People Knows Humans Black Human Beings White Revolutionary Black Power

Author: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”

Needs Doe Black Voice Community Heard Position Organization Claims Significance Slogans Black Power Sncc

Book:What we want

Source: What we want

“It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.”

Pain Black Born Hurt Cry Despair Spring Philosophical Disappointment Wounds Persistent Slogans Zeus Black Power Some Philosophical

Author:Martin Luther

“We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active”

People Ifs Together Beautiful Black Taken Importance Active Coming Together Black Power

Author:Assata Shakur

“Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.”

People Hard America Black White Demand Rage Black People Black Power Hard Questions

Author:Charles Hamilton Houston

“Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.”

Looks Mean Children Black Decision Pride Demand Dignity Roots My Children Look At Me Black Power

Author:Whitney M. Young

“There is a higher law than the Constitution.”

Law Higher Constitution Black Power Higher Law

Author:William H. Seward

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.”

Matter Truth Telling The Truth Criminal Mind Black Power Truth And Justice Things On My Mind Black Nationalism Justice Truth

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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

Men Raises Philosopher Black Power

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.”

Done Black Cities Groups New York Quiet Mouths Police Jew Department Italian New York City Boston Chanting Black Power Police Department Collective Action

Author:Whitney M. Young

“Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Stills Today Earth America Black United Consciousness Movement West South Spokes North America South America Black Power West Indies Black Consciousness

Author:Walter Rodney

“Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.”

Social Black White Injustice Social Injustice Black Power White Power

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.”

Men Needs Black White Weakness Finals Analysis White Man Black Power

Book:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.”

Philosophy Evil Winning Black Born Views Possibility Salvation Conviction American Society Can't Win Black Power

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.”

Ifs Helping Black Violence Possibility Aim Helping Others Motive Nonviolence Black Power

Author:Dalai Lama