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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 first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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
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
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
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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Liberty Man Nation Reaction Revolution Struggle Woman
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
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
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
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
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

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