Assata Shakur Quotes - Page 2

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• People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, People, Tolerance

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

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• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

  Assata Shakur

  Book, College, Practice

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Sleep, Luxury, Peaceful

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• At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, People, Black

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• The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Firsts, Planning

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• And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

  Assata Shakur

  Wall, Broken, Knows

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

  Assata Shakur

  Political, Racist, Revolutionary

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• Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

  Assata Shakur

  Vision, Causes, Honest

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Racism, Reason, Imperialism

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• I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

  Assata Shakur

  Taken, Thinking, Serious

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• Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Love Is, Hands

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.145, Zed Books

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• If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

  Assata Shakur

  Nike, Air, Filters

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• I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  Spiritual, Struggle, Creativity

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• We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

  Assata Shakur

  People, World, Easy

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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

  Assata Shakur

  Dumb, World, Blind

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.222, Zed Books

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• Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

  Assata Shakur

  Night, Black, Littles

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• We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

  Assata Shakur

  Simple, Practice, Simple Truths

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.215, Zed Books

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• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  Assata Shakur

  Sake, Given, Idealism

  Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.9, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

  Assata Shakur

  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Ideas, Enemy, Age

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.167, Zed Books

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• My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

  Assata Shakur

  Lonely, War, People

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Reality, People, Peaceful

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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

  Assata Shakur

  Hair, Race, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.189, Zed Books

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• There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.

  Assata Shakur

  Nice, Sleep, Night

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• We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

  Assata Shakur

  Years, Opposites, People

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