β€œNobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

- Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

@Ashedryden
The only rights we have are the ones we're willing to fight for.

@Ashedryden

Along the same lines...

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

-- Frederick Douglass

@Ashedryden she got hers by shooting a NJ State Trooper and then breaking out of prison. Fuck her.

@Ashedryden came here to see how many people said "Gandhi" in the comments

I'm begging y'all to learn more about Gandhi than Richard Attenborough wanted to tell you

@portlandy and MLK as if he just asked nicely and was granted the Civil Rights Act???
@Ashedryden and the all-white all-male supreme court were simply convinced of the error in their ways when they ruled against school segregation
@Ashedryden @portlandy And as if Malcolm wasn’t around at the same time, and as if neither of them were assassinated, and as if the Civil Rights movement actually achieved real equality for Black people…
@Ashedryden
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-- Frederick Douglass
@Ashedryden We fought for our freedom once. Will we do it again?
@Ashedryden
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." Frederick Douglass