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There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black.

— Assata Shakur To My People (1973)

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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions.

My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Olugbala ( "for the people" ) Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave.

Too many people in the u.s. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing of people without ever having to look at the corpses.

Any Black person in amerika, if they are honest with themselves, has got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be Free.

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