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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

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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Change Movement Racism Social
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Oppression Resistance
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
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
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
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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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Born Hate Honesty Struggle Unnecessary War World
A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.
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Liberty Man Nation Reaction Revolution Struggle Woman
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
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
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
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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Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power
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 usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Practice Success Truth
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
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Change Construction Love Ourselves System Weapon

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