"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."
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"Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up."
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"My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance."
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"I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change."
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"The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody."
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"I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life."
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"I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo."
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"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."
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"I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa."
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"The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen."
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"As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them."
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"All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality."
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"I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day."
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"People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice."
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"The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air."
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"I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America."
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"People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking."
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"I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one."
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"The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known."
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"I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other."
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