Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKUR
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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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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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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.
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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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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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When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan 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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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
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