I realized that I was connected to Africa.
ASSATA SHAKUREvery 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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