Assata Shakur Quotes - Page 3

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

  Assata Shakur

  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Resistance

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• The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, People, Healthy

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• When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, White, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.80, Zed Books

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• The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

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  Running, Xenophobia, Color

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• I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator

  Assata Shakur

  Girl, Real, Helping Others

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• I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

  Assata Shakur

  Wall, Cells, Years

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• People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Television, Newspapers

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.183, Zed Books

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• While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

  Assata Shakur

  Cutting, Space, Fire

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

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• A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

  Assata Shakur

  Men, Revolutionary, Reactionaries

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• I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Responsible

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

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

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  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Race, Years

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• Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

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  Warrior, Oppression, Has Beens

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• In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.

  Assata Shakur

  Important, Littles, Able

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• We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

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  Beautiful, Taken, People

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• People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

  Assata Shakur

  Simple, Thinking, Order

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

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• My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

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  Struggle, Dancing, Energy

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.204, Zed Books

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• All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Victim, Asks

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.183, Zed Books

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• Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

  Assata Shakur

  Two, People, Contradiction

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• The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

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  Rap, Government, Together

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• I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

  Assata Shakur

  Betrayal, Struggle, Thinking

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• I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

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  Survival, Curiosity, Different

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• That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasn’t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

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  Mistake, Party, Taken

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• A woman’s place is in the struggle.

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  Struggle

  "Group that protested NRA over 'violent' rhetoric embraces convicted cop killer" by Stephen Gutowski, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2017.

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• I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.

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  Believe, Thinking, Kentucky

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