Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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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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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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