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.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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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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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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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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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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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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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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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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