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

Assata Shakur

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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Age Community Enemy Fools Ideas Teaching
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.
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Born Hate Honesty Struggle Unnecessary War World
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
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Education Freedom Hero History Knowledge Teaching
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
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
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
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 believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
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
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
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

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