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.
ASSATA SHAKURThis planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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