This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
ASSATA SHAKUROnly the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know 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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
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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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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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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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