Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
ASSATA SHAKUR
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.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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.
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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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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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