The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
ASSATA SHAKURIf we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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We 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.
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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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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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 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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks.
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