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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.

Assata Shakur

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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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Air Commitment Design Earth Filter Gas Mask Save
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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Form Promotion Racism Reason
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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Appeal Freedom History Moral Oppress People Sense World
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.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Easy Expose Live People Suck Trick World
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Incomplete Motivational Practice Theory
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Black Condition Creation Drop Moon Oppression Racism Revolution Shape
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Born Hate Honesty Struggle Unnecessary War World
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Care Cry Human Lean Liberty Live People Women
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.
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Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Believe Business Planning Practice
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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Declare Face Heartless Politics Poverty Property Prosperity Protect Robot Smile
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
ASSATA SHAKUR

Buy Children Joke Water

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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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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