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When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
Activist
Jamaica
Queens
Joanne Deborah Byron
Fighting
Organize
White
Liberation
Fear
Drop
Black
Guilt
Reason
Seriously
Take
Arms
People
Fight
Dead

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