When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
ASSATA SHAKURThis planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Every 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.
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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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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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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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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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