I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade.
ASSATA SHAKURWhen I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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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.
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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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