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.
ASSATA SHAKURDreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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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.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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