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.
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…
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. - Assata Shakur
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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.
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 …
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.
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. - Assata Shakur
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along. - Assata Shakur
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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