Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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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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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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