If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKURHip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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 don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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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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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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When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
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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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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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