The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUREvery person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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We’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
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