"I was sentenced to life plus 30 years……" — Assata Shakur
"I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense."
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58 Quotes by Assata Shakur
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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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