Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKURThe 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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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 a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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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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