Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
ASSATA SHAKURThis planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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’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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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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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