#Stokely Carmichael

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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[davidhudson]

Stokely Carmichael, June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998.

1966 photo by Gordon Parks.

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)

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Gordon Parks (photograph), Stokely Carmichael in SNCC Office, (gelatin silver print), 1967, Edition of 15 [Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL. © Gordon Parks / The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY]

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"Today power is defined by the amount of violence one can bring against one’s enemy — that is how you decide how powerful a country is; power is defined not by the number of people living in a country, it is not based on the amount of resources to be found in that country, it is not based upon the good will of the leaders or the majority of that people. When one talks about a powerful country, one is talking precisely about the amount of violence that that country can heap upon its enemy. (…) The way the oppressor tries to stop the oppressed from using violence as a means to attain liberation is to raise ethical or moral questions about violence. I want to state emphatically here that violence in any society is neither moral nor is it ethical. It is neither right nor is it wrong. It is just simply a question of who has the power to legalize violence. The oppressor never really puts an ethical or moral judgment on violence, except when the oppressed picks up guns against the oppressor. For the oppressor, violence is simply the expedient thing to do". Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture The Pitfalls of Liberalism (1969). - A chapter from Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (1971) - .

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Photos: the "greatest democracy" in the Middle East.

[roseillith]

THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1971 (2011) dir. GÖRAN OLSSON

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Stokely Carmichael addresses an October 1968 gathering outside of the New School of Afro-American Thought following the police shooting of Elijah Bennett.

D.C. Public Library, Star Collection

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[forever70s]

Stokely Carmichael addressing an audience at a civil rights gathering (1970)

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