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born 1954 United States
Ashanti Omowali Alston (born 1954) is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army.
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One must never stop learning and growing and working for the People.
Because of the totally racist, genocidal dynamic within this Babylonian Empire, the black nationalist understood that we must primarily look to ourselves to free ourselves.
Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It (1999)
Only the People’s full participation can bring true victory. And the People are real individual human beings, like me—with brains, desires, fears, angers, dreams, etc.
Through the Imagination, All is possible.
Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It (1999)
The people themselves have to create structures in which they articulate their own voice and make their own decisions. I didn’t get that from other ideologies: I got that from anarchism.
Black Anarchism (2003)
Revolution is learning how to bring a large variety of personalities together into a powerful harmony. This harmony must lay down some general direction and get work done. It’s never easy. It’s struggle. It takes a lot of skill.
When old strategies don’t work, you need to look for other ways of doing things to see if you can get yourself unstuck and move forward again.
Black Anarchism (2003)
Nationalism and statism are different because nationalism can be anti-state. But they can have commonalities in that nationalism may only be against a particular kind of state, such as a Racist State, or a Fascist State.
Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It (1999)
What does it say about you, if you allow someone to set themselves up as your leader and make all your decisions for you? What anarchism helped me see was that you, as an individual, should be respected and that no one is important enough to do your thinking for you.
Black Anarchism (2003)
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