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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.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

When the judge learned i was sick and unable to come to kourt, he had a fit. He acted like i had gotten sick just to delay the trial.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Fidel, in a speech, had told the people, We are all Afro-Cubans, from the very lightest to the very darkest.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

I'm truly blessed, because many of my friends come to Cuba. They like it here-they can relax and not worry about drive-by shootings or getting raped.

I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

I had grown up believing the slaves hadn't fought back. I remember feeling ashamed when they talked about slavery in school.

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

We found out later that a lone Black juror had refused to convict us. He had heard us.

Everything you love
is from a different world.
Hungry,
you turn your nose up
at my peas and rice.

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

A woman's place is in the struggle.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain't.

We are pregnant with freedom.

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one ... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.

The police photographer asks, Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

I thought about it all the way home. Of all the things I had wanted to be when i was a little girl, a revolutionary certainly wasn't one of them.

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

were alive and we were excited and we believed that we were going to be free someday.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.

They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.

I Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.