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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Assata Shakur

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
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
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
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
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Duty Each Other Fight Freedom Lose Love Support Win
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Black Condition Creation Drop Moon Oppression Racism Revolution Shape
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
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
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant

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