Most of us felt that taking control of our neighborhoods was the first step toward liberation.. First, we would take control of the schools; then we would take control of the hospitals; then we would take control of the colleges, the housing, etc., etc. We would have community controlled employment, welfare centers, and city, state, and federal agencies.' Hold on for a minute, ' somebody said. 'Where are y'all gonna get the money to run all that stuff?'' We'll take community control of the banks, ' someone answered.' You'd better take community control of the army, too, because those banks aren't gonna just let you take their money lying down."' We'll take control of the political institutions in our community. Then we'll take control of the congressional seats, the senate seats, the city council seats, the mayor's office, and every other office you can take control of. We'll take control of the political offices so we can allocate money to the people who need it.'' Y'all just wishing and hoping, ' someone said. 'You can control the social institutions and the political institutions, but unless you control the economic and military institutions, you can only go so far. . Assata Shakur
How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?
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Maaza Mengiste
To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
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Mona Eltahawy
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing....
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Anonymous
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Victor Hugo
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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Jennifer Donnelly
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This is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>we will fight if we are forced to but the...
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.
The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two...
He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was burnt. I got the Bronx Ministry to put him on the phone and proceeded to call him the unprincipled, arrogant idiot he...
