This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
ASSATA SHAKURI believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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