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We are pregnant with freedom.

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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Change Movement Racism Social
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
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
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
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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
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
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
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
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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