Assata Shakur Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• 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.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, People, Tolerance

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books

• To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

  Assata Shakur

  Slave

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books

• I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Color, Racism

  "Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison Regime". Book by Dylan Rodríguez, 2006.

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