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Autonomy means that the movement must be truly independent and a free association of all those united around common goals, rather than membership as the result of some oath or other pressure.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)

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No people are truly free until they can determine their own destiny.

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