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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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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.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“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.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
Isabel’s 2024 Year in Books
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