Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
ASSATA SHAKURBlack revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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 believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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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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Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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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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