Sncc Quotes

• Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

  Julian Bond

  Rights, Order, Groups

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• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.

  Ella Baker

  Effort, Political, Voters

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• An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

  Stokely Carmichael

  Organization, Voice, Community

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  Ella Baker

  Simple, Thinking, Differences

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• The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Position

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• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  Yaya DaCosta

  Mother, Father, Rights

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