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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Assata Shakur

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
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
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
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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Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power
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
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
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
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
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
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
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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