I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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