Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
ASSATA SHAKURWhere there is oppression, there will be resistance.
More Assata Shakur Quotes
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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 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 I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
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Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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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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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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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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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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Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
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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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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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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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