I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
ASSATA SHAKURI 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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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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I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
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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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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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