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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  • Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.
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  • People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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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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  • People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 277
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  • Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
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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.
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  • The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
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  • The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
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  • The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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  • The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 267
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  • Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
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  • To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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  • We are pregnant with freedom.
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  • We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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  • We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
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  • We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167
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  • When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 80
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  • Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 184
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