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Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

MLK Jr, “Selma”

#conviction #layyourlifedown #strong belief

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Beyonce, “Formation”

#blackhat #beyonce #speakup

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“No group can claim to have a better interpretation of the “truth” than another.“

Hill Collins, “Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination”

#whatistruth #difference of opinion #interpretcarefully

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Whites are more likely to live among, go to school with, work with, attend church with, socialize with, and marry other white people. Thus the idea of white fear toward the unknown other is actually real.

Lorde, “A Litany for Survival” 

#culturalsegregation #breakthewall #unecessaryfear

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SURPRISE MUTHAFUCKA!! I'm with him!! That's right we swirlin'!

#1 Dad Bods

#modernracism #stillnorepercussions #theyfunnytho

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As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist

Lorde, “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House”

#buildacommunity #acceptyourdifferences #recognizeforcesforchange

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who bit detectives in the neck and shrieked with delight in     policecars for committing no crime but their own wild     cooking pederasty and intoxication, who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off     the roof waving genitals and manuscripts, who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists,     and screamed with joy, who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors,     caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,

Ginsberg, “Howl”

#thiswasevenworse #ginsbergisinsane #hadtoreadlike8times

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America it's them bad Russians.  Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.  The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take  our cars from out our garages.  Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our  auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.

Ginsberg- “America”

#russiaforever #what did i just read #i dont understand

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The status of the Negro, then, was justly fixed as that of an inferior. Teachers of Negroes in their first schools after Emancipation did not proclaim any such doctrine, but the content of their curricula justified these inferences.

Goodwin Wilson, “Miseducation of the Negro”

#change the curriculum #emancipation proclamation #reeducate

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind. Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time

Bob Marley, “Redemption Song”

#ripbobmarley #fightforpeace #nonviolent resistance

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Uncle Sam still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world. Not only is he a crook, he’s a hypocrite. Here he is standing up in front of other people, Uncle Sam, with the blood of your and mine mothers and fathers on his hands, with the blood dripping down his jaws like a bloody-jawed wolf, and still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries.

Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”

#goodolunclesam #blameshift #seek truth

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Twitter became a space where people could not only express their anger, disappointment and grief, but also work together to organize grassroots rallies and protests

Jones, “Is Twitter the Underground Railroad of Activism”

#from all sides #expressyourself #undergroundorganization

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I think this is interesting as it draws attention towards something that doesn’t seem to be the main part of the video.  It places the attention on another oppressed grouping of people other than African-Americans, the women of both this period and even now.  The woman is silent, as she knows if she says anything it could only make the situation worse.

Thinking back to this part in the video after watching to the end where she is standing with what I considered the “resistance”, does the fact she doesn’t say anything here or do anything later actually make her part of the resistance? #didsheevendoanything #issilenceaction #avoidingchaos

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I Have a Dream- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I refuse the believe the Bank of America is bankrupt."

#socialreform #fightforrights #corevalues

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J. Cole- G.O.M.D.

#literallyonhishighhorse #whenoppressionwasobvious #laughatyourpain

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Ferguson Photo

#total surrender #theotheronepercent #mob mentality #fuckthepolice