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“Martin Luther King, Malcolm X as Prof X and Magneto” by Dave Wachter

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn’t mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t even call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence.

- Malcolm X

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simplydop3:

Dr. Martin The Lion King Jr.

Omg.

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mohandasgandhi:

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Believe in yourself and believe that you’re somebody.

Nobody else can do this for us. No document can do this for us. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation can do this for us. No Kennesonia or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can do this for us.

If the Negro is to be free, he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-asserted manhood his own Emancipation Proclamation.

Jay Electronica - Jazzmatazz (Guru Tribute) ft. Tone Treasure

We got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter to me now, because I’ve been to the mountain top… and I don’t mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just wanna do God’s will, and He allows me to go up to the mountain.
And I’ve look over.
And I’ve seen the Promised Land.
I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.
So I’m happy tonight.
I’m not worried about anything.
I’m not fearing any man.
MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD.

Boom bash dash
I had to break, I had to get away
Pack my bags, headed for Greyhound, it was a Monday
Time to start my mission
I felt that burning feeling in my soul, I had to listen
I had this reoccurring dream from the stage and the suit with a fade
I had set the game ablaze and they threw me a parade
I stacked a little change and took my family out the caves
But I was trapped in a maze like a lab rat
And at the bottom of barrel where they keep the crabs at
No Geico, no Aflac, nothing to fall back on
But the streets where niggas cussed out the police and sold their crack on
Better known as back home, where they treat the Arabs and the Spanish and the Blacks wrong
There he go with that song, you may be tired but I spit what I’m inspired
From the Lord of the worlds ‘cause the Devil is a liar

Say, I’ve seen the lightning flashing (YES I DID)
And I’ve seen the thunder roar,
But you can’t (YOU CAN’T KEEP ME DOWN FOR LONG)
Because I’m getting stronger (BECAUSE I’M GETTING STRONGER)

My style is like a shot of Jack Daniels, a baby grand piano
Lightening Hopkin, smokin’ cigs, strummin’ on the banjo
The son of man’s the son of a gun with hella ammo
Sheriffs shootin’ Bob Marley, John J Rambo
Six sextillion, 19 million, the holy pyramids say we all Allah’s children
Voodoo for the pilgrims who bring weapons and conceal them
They silence you with force and then indoctrinate the children
Yo Gabba Gabba, Ahmadinejad a blow up your apartment if you don’t observe the Sabbath
I look the devil in his eye and say, “Abracadabra”
Then drown ‘em in the mighty light his brain couldn’t fathom
Scrappin’ every day, just like fight club, a thriller and a smooth criminal like Mike was

Say, I’ve seen the lightning flashing (YES I DID)
And I’ve seen the thunder roar,
But you can’t (YOU CAN’T KEEP ME DOWN FOR LONG)
Because I’m getting stronger (BECAUSE I’M GETTING STRONGER)

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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
-Voltaire

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”
-Edmund Burke

“If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face.  But I left with a smile.  I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.  Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
-Malcolm X

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me.  If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.  I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
-Robert A. Heinlein

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.