Stokely Carmichael in "What We Want," 1966
But our vision is not merely of
a society in which all black men have enough to buy the good things of life.
When we urge that black money go into black pockets, we mean the communal
pocket. We want to see money go back into the community and used to benefit it.
We want to see the cooperative concept applied in business and banking. We want
to see black ghetto residents demand that an exploiting store keeper sell them,
at minimal cost, a building or a shop that they will own and improve
cooperatively; they can back their demand with a rent strike, or a boycott, and
a community so unified behind them that no one else will move into the building
or buy at the store. The society we seek to build among black people, then, is
not a capitalist one. It is a society in which the spirit of community and
humanistic love prevail.