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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.

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  Fighting, White, People

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

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• In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Long, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.267, Zed Books

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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.

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  Strong, Struggle, Responsible

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

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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.

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  People, World, Easy

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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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• 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.

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  Lonely, War, People

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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.

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  Believe, Race, Years

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

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  People, Television, Newspapers

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

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• The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Thinking, Air

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Nice, Sleep, Night

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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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• 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.

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  Wall, Cells, Years

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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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• 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

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  Struggle, People, Healthy

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

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  Men, Revolutionary, Reactionaries

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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.

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  Betrayal, Struggle, Thinking

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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.

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  Important, Littles, Able

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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.

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  Two, People, Contradiction

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• We are pregnant with freedom.

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  Pregnant

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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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• People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

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  People, Colonialism, Slavery

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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.

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  Simple, Thinking, Order

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

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• Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

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  Sacrifice, Racism, Colonialism

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