Tupac Shakur Quotes on Activism
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It's not going to stop until we stop it. And it's not just white man that's brain-dead. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's black. And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
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Cops give a damn about a negro/pull the trigger kill a nigga, he's a hero
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It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said, 2 shots in the dark, now Huey's dead.
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Through this supression, they punish the people that's askin questions/And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
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Down to die, for everything I represent/Meant every word, in my letter to the President
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When they ask me, when will the violence cease?/When your troops stop shootin niggaz down in the street
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Living on Earth / Tell me, what's a black life worth? / A bottle of juice / is no excuse, the truth hurts!
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I wonder why we take from our women/Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?/I think it's time to kill for our women/Time to heal our women, be real to our women/And if we don't we'll have a race of babies/That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
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This ain't bout talkin bout problems, I bring solutions/Where's the restitution, stipulated through the constitution
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We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.