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Assata Shakur

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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Duty Each Other Fight Freedom Lose Love Support Win
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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Believe Birth Fire Home Live Love Sailor Ship Sweat 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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
We are pregnant with freedom.
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Freedom Pregnant
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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
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 realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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 can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
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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Education Freedom Hero History Knowledge Teaching
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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Afford Gift Luxury Mind Peace Rare Rebel Sleep Spirit
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
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
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
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
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
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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
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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Choose Enemy Fools
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
We’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
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Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick 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
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

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