Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
ASSATA SHAKURWe need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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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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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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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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 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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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