Stokely Carmichael Quotes

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

Now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.