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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.

Assata Shakur

Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power
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
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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Education Freedom Hero History Knowledge Teaching
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
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
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 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
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
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
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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Care Cry Human Lean Liberty Live People Women
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

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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