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.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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