We are pregnant with freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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 first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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 can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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