Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKURI can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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 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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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 are pregnant with freedom.
ASSATA SHAKUR