Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
ASSATA SHAKURHip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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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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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’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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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