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I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.

Assata Shakur

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
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Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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Attention Capable Effective Method Peace People Protest Reality
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Choose Enemy Fools
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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Form Promotion Racism Reason
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
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Buy Children Joke Water
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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Care Cry Human Lean Liberty Live People Women
Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power

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