The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKURI realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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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 are pregnant with freedom.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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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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