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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

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
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
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Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
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
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
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Change Movement Racism Social
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
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
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.
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Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
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Change Construction Love Ourselves System Weapon
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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Believe Birth Fire Home Live Love Sailor Ship Sweat Truth

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

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