"I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle……" — Assata Shakur
"I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other."
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58 Quotes by Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur has 58 quotes on this site.
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Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and…
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the…
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Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them…
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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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And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine…
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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling…
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If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But…
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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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I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
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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…
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I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole…
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More Collectivity Quotes
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The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember,…
— Rajneesh
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
— Steve Lacy
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The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days…
— Dane Rudhyar
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It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to…
— Unknown Author
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their…
— Antonio Gramsci
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How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when…
— Antonio Gramsci
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... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know…
— Harold Bloom
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Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The history of the People is one of cooperation, collectivity, and living in balance. The history of the Indians is…
— John Trudell
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