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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.

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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

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Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Activist

Born: May 19th, 1921

Died: June 1st, 2014

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