Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
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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 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 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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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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 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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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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