Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Stokely Carmichael
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... →
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating... →
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I... →
Robert Caro
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices... →
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero... →
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.