Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
ASSATA SHAKURThe first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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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.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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