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Source for Quotation |
Transcript of Narration |
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unidentified black man standing at Church pulpit |
Film documentary Anarchy U.S.A., video section 1:09:08 - 1:10:12. |
Had not this rotten facist racist cop lieutenant that killed the young plowboy, had he not killed the boy, the boy very well might have died in South Vietnam in the name of freedom ... I was also asked to tell you not to get your passions so high, not to get too worked up; however, I think many of us are (going to) have to choose where we're going to die at ... we're going to have to decide whether we're (going to) die on the streets of the United States or in South Vietnam. I would choose the United States myself ... |
Video footage of this man can be seen in the video section |
James Forman |
Film documentary Revolution Underway, video section 9:50 - 10:44 |
[Narrator:] (The Worker, the Communist newspaper) now expanded into a widely-distributed daily, linked to international headquarters in Moscow, carried the black power revolutionary line as set forth officially by James Foreman, SNCC official and lieutenant to Stokely Carmichael. In this speech to 5,000 Negro college students in California, and published in the Communist Worker, Forman said of the revolution:
[Second narrator, quoting Forman:]
The dispossessed unite with the dispossessed ... the dispossessed in the United States are the people of African descent, the Puerto Ricans, the Mexican Americans, and many poor white. We are the vanguard of that group. ... whether we will live up to our historical role and lead forward that revolution remains to be seen. ... We must be prepared to fight and die. And we must believe that we will win. ... Only from the masses of the Black people will there come revolutionary leadership. |
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Stokely Carmichael |
Film documentary Revolution Underway, video section 12:36 - 13:32 |
[Narrator:] In this official Communist newspaper, Granma, published in Communist Cuba, Carmichael eulogizes Guevara, and pledges as a comrade to carry on the world revolution:
[Carmichael:] With the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, it is our revolutionary duty to create Vietnams inside the United States. Che explained clearly that there is no need to talk more, that the contradictions in the world are clear, and that the time has come for each to take his place in the fight. This is exactly what Malcolm X said: the time for words has (passed). Now is the time to fight. Che Guevara died the way we all should die: fighting imperialism, weapons in hand. His example, like that of Patrice Lumumba, spurs us on in the fight and gives us strength to continue this struggle, which we shall win. They died fighting. And we, from now on, will also die fighting. |
The article in Granma from which Carmichael is quoted is entitled "This is Not the Time for Tears but for Combat, States Carmichael in Message on the Death of Che Guevara" |
Stokely Carmichael |
Film documentary Revolution Underway, video section 13:55 - 14:07
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[Narrator:] And in Paris, just before returning to America, Carmichael said:
[Carmichael:] Our movement is to move to disrupt the structure of the United States ... our blood will pay for that ... we think it is not too high a price to pay ... |
Carmichael had held a press conference in Havana, before traveling to Paris. |
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