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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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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
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
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
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
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
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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
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.
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Change Construction Love Ourselves System Weapon
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize

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