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When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

Assata Shakur

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
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’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
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
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
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
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
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Action Dreams Motivational Opposite Reality
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
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’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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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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Buy Children Joke Water
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory

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