Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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 can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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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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