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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  Justice, United States, Racist

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Mistake, Party, Taken

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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.

  Assata Shakur

  Survival, Curiosity, Different

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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.

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  Beautiful, Struggle, Creative

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• There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

  Assata Shakur

  Hurt, People, Sides

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• I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

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  Wealth Of Knowledge, People, Energy

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• A woman’s place is in the struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  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 people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

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  Thinking, People, Want

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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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• Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

  Assata Shakur

  Black, Trying, Revolutionary

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

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• Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.

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  War, Fall, Community

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• 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

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• Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

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  Practice, Theory, Incomplete

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• 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

  People, Community, Lovely

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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• Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

  Assata Shakur

  Ghetto, Moon, Black

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• And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Media, Important

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

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• Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, Support You, Issues

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

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• I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Color, Racism

  "Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison Regime". Book by Dylan Rodríguez, 2006.

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• All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.

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  Healing, Reality, Medicine

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• I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

  Assata Shakur

  Political, Criminals, Groups

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• The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

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  Sick, United States, Culture

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• The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, Example

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• I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, I Believe, Parades

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

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  Government, People, Missing

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