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 SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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