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Howl-Ginsberg

“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism,”

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America-Ginsberg

“America this is quite serious.  America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.  America is this correct?”

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The Mis-Education of the Negro-Carter Godwin Woodson

“Negroes have no control over their education and have little voice in their other affairs pertaining thereto.”

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Ballot of the Bullet-Malcolm X

“Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom.”

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Redemption Song-Bob Marley

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.”

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With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day

Martin Luther King, Jr. (via acrawf12)

This quote is very powerful, in that Dr. King was adamant about the Civil Rights Movement being a group effort. It shows that to make change it takes people rather than a person. It takes being together, rather being divided.

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“People continue to use Twitter to vent their frustrations, and those who are savvy are using it to actually do something about the causes they believe in. They prove that 140 characters can be all it takes to spark a movement.”-Feminista Jones

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