“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”
Get Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael and Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
Kwame Touré, once known as Stokely Carmichael(June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), was a Trinidadian-American activist active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global 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.[1]
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