Assata Shakur Quotes About Imperialism

Quotes about: Imperialism

• Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.

  Assata Shakur

  Freedom, Cutting, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.282, Zed Books

• Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

  Assata Shakur

  Racism, Reason, Imperialism

• People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Colonialism, Slavery

• I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Thinking, Racism

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