Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
ASSATA SHAKURThis planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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