We are pregnant with freedom.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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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 usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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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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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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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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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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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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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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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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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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