Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Stokely Carmichael, (Jun 29 1941-1998), US civil rights leader; He first used the Black Power slogan to describe grass-roots efforts at political and economic self-empowerment; changed his name to Kwame Ture.