Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKURBlack 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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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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