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.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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