Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKURI realized that I was connected to Africa.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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