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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.

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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Duty Each Other Fight Freedom Lose Love Support Win
If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
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
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
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
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
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
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
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
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Believe Death Life
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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
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
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

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