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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.

Assata Shakur

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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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
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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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