Stokely Carmichael
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" Kwame Touré", once known as "Stokely Carmichael", was a Trinidad and Tobago/Trinidadian-United States/American activist active in the 1960s African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)/Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-Africanism/Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.

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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

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

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath.We ain't running no more.