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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.

Assata Shakur

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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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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Born Hate Honesty Struggle Unnecessary War World
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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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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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Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
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
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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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
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.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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Buy Children Joke Water
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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