Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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.
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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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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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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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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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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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