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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.

— Ashanti Alston Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It (1999)

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One must never stop learning and growing and working for the People.

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.

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One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

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