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Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Assata Shakur

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
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’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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Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick World
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
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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Duty Each Other Fight Freedom Lose Love Support Win
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
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Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
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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Liberty Man Nation Reaction Revolution Struggle Woman
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
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
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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
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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