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People Quotes by Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur warns that not grasping the consequences of what you say in music can land you in trouble. She believes the only way to free people is through their own effort and that simple, clear actions often succeed better than complicated plans. She also notes that ignoring oppression makes people tolerate it more.

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In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

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When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race…

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The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're…

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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…

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How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a…

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

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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…

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People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say,…

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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…

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Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of…

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I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from…

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I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like…

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I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a…

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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,…

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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…

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I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form…

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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…

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White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they…

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To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to…

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In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people…

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I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what…

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The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has…

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While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world,…

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We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that…

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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.…

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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…

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I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

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Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

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I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder…

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Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

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I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take…

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I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

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I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work…

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The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is…

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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

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We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black…

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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…

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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…

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I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general…

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If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek…

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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.

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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.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill…

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be…

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…

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

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…

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…

Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community.…

“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…

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.