Posted on Tuesday, 17 January 2012

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

Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)

ALWAYS REBLOG.

(via ndnsurgency)

*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.

(via so-treu)

Every degree of freedom we have, every ‘right’, is the result of the struggles of peoples passed. Your privileges were paid for out of the blood, sweat, and tears of brave persons throughout history.

If you want anything more - if you want the world better than it is now - you’re going to take it. You’re going to have to fight. You’re going to have to win.

(via ideasandopinions)

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