We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that.… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
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… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community.… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal… — Assata Shakur Copy Share
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. — Assata Shakur Copy Share
