If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
ASSATA SHAKUROnly a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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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 revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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