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.
ASSATA SHAKURI can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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