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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.

— Ashanti Alston Black Anarchism (2003)

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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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