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.
ASSATA SHAKURWe’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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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 revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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