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“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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“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“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.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.”
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“If you don't build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
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