If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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 realized that I was connected to Africa.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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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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