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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Assata Shakur

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
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
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
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 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
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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Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
We’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
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Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick World
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
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
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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Believe Birth Fire Home Live Love Sailor Ship Sweat Truth
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
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

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