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 SHAKURDreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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