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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.

Assata Shakur

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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Care Cry Human Lean Liberty Live People Women
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 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
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Earth Place Planet Vulnerable Wonderful
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
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
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
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
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
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
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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice

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