Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKUR
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKUR