Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
ASSATA SHAKUREvery 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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We’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
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A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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