Assata Shakur Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• 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

• 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

• In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Lynching, Self

• 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

• The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Determination, Real

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