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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
— Assata Shakur
I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.
— Assata Shakur
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
— Assata Shakur
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
— Assata Shakur
When the judge learned i was sick and unable to come to kourt, he had a fit. He acted like i had gotten sick just to delay the trial.
— Assata Shakur
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
— Assata Shakur
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.
— Assata Shakur
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
— Assata Shakur
One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.
— Assata Shakur
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
— Assata Shakur
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
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My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
— Assata Shakur
Fidel, in a speech, had told the people, We are all Afro-Cubans, from the very lightest to the very darkest.
— Assata Shakur
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
I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.
— Assata Shakur
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.
— Assata Shakur
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
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
— Assata Shakur
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
— Assata Shakur
I had grown up believing the slaves hadn't fought back. I remember feeling ashamed when they talked about slavery in school.
— Assata Shakur
What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.
— Assata Shakur
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
— Assata Shakur
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
— Assata Shakur
All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
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We found out later that a lone Black juror had refused to convict us. He had heard us.
— Assata Shakur
Everything you loveis from a different world.
Hungry,
you turn your nose up
at my peas and rice. — Assata Shakur
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.
— Assata Shakur
A woman's place is in the struggle.
— Assata Shakur
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade
— Assata Shakur
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
— Assata Shakur
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
— Assata Shakur
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
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
— Assata Shakur
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
— Assata Shakur
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
— Assata Shakur
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.
— Assata Shakur
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
— Assata Shakur
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
— Assata Shakur
How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.
— Assata Shakur
The police photographer asks, Don't you wanna give us a smile? Come on. Give us a smile.
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I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.
— Assata Shakur
My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.
— Assata Shakur
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
— Assata Shakur
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
— Assata Shakur
I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
— Assata Shakur
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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I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.
— Assata Shakur
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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were alive and we were excited and we believed that we were going to be free someday.
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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
The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.
— Assata Shakur
I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.
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That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.
— Assata Shakur
They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.
— Assata Shakur
I Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth
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