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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
Activist
Jamaica
Queens
Joanne Deborah Byron
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Used
Anything
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People
Oppression
Tolerance
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