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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Assata Shakur

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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
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’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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Age Community Enemy Fools Ideas Teaching
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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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
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
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
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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Form Promotion Racism Reason
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 can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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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

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