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Yuri Kochiyama [1921-2014] Japanese
Rank: 101
Activist


Yuri Kochiyama was an American political activist. Influenced by her Japanese American family's internment and her association with Malcolm X, she advocated for many causes, including Black separatism, the anti-war movement, Maoist revolution, reparations for Japanese-American internees, and the rights of people imprisoned by the U.S. government for violent offenses whom she considered to be "political prisoners".


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