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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.

Assata Shakur

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
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Choose Enemy Fools
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
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
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
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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Afford Gift Luxury Mind Peace Rare Rebel Sleep Spirit
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
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
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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

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