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.
ASSATA SHAKURThe methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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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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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 can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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