I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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