Assata Shakur Quotes

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• It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
  It is our duty to win.
  We must love each other and support each other.
  We have nothing to lose but our chains.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Winning, Support

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

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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

  People, World, Moral

  Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.151, Zed Books Ltd.

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• 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

  Needs, Weapons, Construction

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• No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

  Assata Shakur

  Hero, Giving, Needs

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• 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

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• A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Men

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• Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

  Assata Shakur

  Enemy, Fool

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• Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

  Assata Shakur

  Resistance, Oppression

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

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• Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Crazy, Weak

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.209, Zed Books

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• Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers.

  Assata Shakur

  Brother, Powerful, Feet

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• Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

  Assata Shakur

  Dream, Reality, Opposites

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.275, Zed Books

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• I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

  Assata Shakur

  War, Lying, Heartless

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.65, Zed Books

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• White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. 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, Gun, Thinking

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• Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

  Assata Shakur

  Moon, Black, Revolutionary

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, 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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• 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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• 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 hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, War, Struggle

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• The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, People, Usual

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• No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

  Assata Shakur

  Giving, Needs

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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