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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
“I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.”
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Carole Boston Weatherford
“I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read, she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.
Carole Boston Weatherford, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Heidi Priebe
“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do—if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary—you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”
Heidi Priebe, The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.”
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Stokely Carmichael
“White liberals are always saying, "What can we do?” I mean, they’re always coming to help black people. I thought of an analogy. If you were walking down the street and a man had a gun on another man – let’s say both of them were white – and you had to help somebody, whom would you help? It’s obvious to me that if I were walking down the street, and a man had a gun on another man, and I was going to help, I’d help the man who didn’t have the gun, if the man who had the fun was just pulling the gun on the other man for no apparent reason – if he was just going to rob him or shoot him because he didn’t like him. The only way I could help is either to get a gun and shoot the man with the gun, or take the gun away from him – join the fellow who doesn’t have a gun and both of us gang up on the man with the gun. But white liberals never do that. When the man has the gun, they walk around him and they come to the victim, and they say “Let me help you,” and what they mean is “help you adjust to the situation with the man who has the gun on you."

If indeed white liberals are going to help, their only job is to get the gun from the man and talk to him, because he is a sick man. The black man is not the sick man, it is the white man who is sick, he’s the one who picked up the gun.”
Stokely Carmichael, Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

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