Famous Quotes

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."

Stokely Carmichael on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Stokely Carmichael

• "We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."

• "We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

• "The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function."

• "Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."

• "There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."