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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.

Assata Shakur

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Form Promotion Racism Reason
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Connection Country Realize
We are pregnant with freedom.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Freedom Pregnant
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Liberty Man Nation Reaction Revolution Struggle Woman
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick World
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Change Movement Racism Social
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Black Condition Creation Drop Moon Oppression Racism Revolution Shape
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Buy Children Joke Water
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Business Planning Practice
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Cloud Execpt Try
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
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 SHAKUR

Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile

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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