I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURWe usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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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 usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know 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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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