Quotes by Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur

American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA)

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 july 1947

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  • I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
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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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  • 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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  • I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
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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.
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  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
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  • If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
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  • Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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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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  • It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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  • 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 chains.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 67
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  • It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile Peacekeeper. It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of peace-keeping.
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  • Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
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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.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 204
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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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  • 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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  • 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 they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
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  • 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: An Autobiography (2016)
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  • Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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  • Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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