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.
ASSATA SHAKURI can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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