Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. - Assata Shakur
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
- Assata Shakur
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 chain… - Assata Shakur
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 chain…
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 oppress… - Assata Shakur
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 oppress…
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
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.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. - Assata Shakur
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along. - Assata Shakur
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. - Assata Shakur
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
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
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.
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 … - Assata Shakur
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 …
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