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“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.”
Source: “Redemption Song”, on the album Uprising (1980), adapting a 1937 speech by Marcus Garvey
Context From Redemption Song, on the last album released in his lifetime, adapting a 1937 speech by Marcus Garvey.
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