A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.
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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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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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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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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 realized that I was connected to Africa.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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