This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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 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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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