I realized that I was connected to Africa.
ASSATA SHAKURWe are pregnant with freedom.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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 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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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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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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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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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