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.
ASSATA SHAKUROnly the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan 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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