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.
ASSATA SHAKURThe methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan 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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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 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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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