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• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without…
• Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
• Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who…
• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills…
• People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
• And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you…
• I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and…
• If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you…
• In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
• I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
• We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black…
• I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that…

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