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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.

— Ashanti Alston

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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)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

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Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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