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American activist (1941-1998)

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Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a prominent American figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. He founded the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and finally as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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Alternative Names: Kwame Ture • Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael

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Revolutionary history shows that the People do not nurse their wounds. After defeat, they begin immediately planning the next step in the forward ever march.

Vietnam is clear, representing another of the tragedies of capitalism. Young men left the U.S.A., traveling 10,000 miles to a country they had never heard of before, actually believing they were sacrificing their lives to advance democracy, to advance history, when in fact they were fighting against themselves.

Human action is divided in relation to control into two domains, the conscious and the unconscious. History has its laws, which affect all in spite of ignorance of said laws. [...] One can fight for justice consciously or unconsciously, the laws of history dominate nonetheless. Thus the unconscious fighters’ energies are channeled in the process of history. Of course we can fight for injustice through .

History is the unbroken march of struggle to advance humanity. Thus all struggles are connected, some more strongly than others.

The task of imperialism is to divide and rule, isolate and dominate.

The universal law of human nature: Where there is oppression there is resistance, and “where oppression grows, resistance grows.”

History is. We cannot make it otherwise.

The capitalist press supports reform movements which forestall Revolution; these reform movements come to depend on the press and even tailor their activities to fit headlines. The capitalist press wants to intoxicate the masses with this reform movement. Intoxicated reform “leaders” believe that political power grows out of the lens of press cameras, and the more lenses, the more power. Just political power comes only from the organized masses.

The capitalist press simply records history, it never makes it; only the masses make history!

Capitalism does not lie some of the time, it lies all of the time.

One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

Authors make errors, history, does not!

The U.S.A. is a settler-colony; only the indigenous people are its just owners.

Imperialism, trying to preserve itself in the face of the oppressed masses’ anticolonial struggle, presented neocolonialism to the masses. Neocolonialism means powerless visibility. You see an African president, but the entire country is controlled by France or Belgium or England—its former colonial master.

Revolutionaries do not take to the path of spilling blood easily.