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.
ASSATA SHAKURIt 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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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 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 realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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