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

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

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

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

- Assata Shakur

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

- Assata Shakur

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

- 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.

- 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 …

- Assata Shakur