I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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 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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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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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