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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

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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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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