"People are tried and convicted in the newspapers……" — Assata Shakur
"People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom."
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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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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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Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is…
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More Convicted Quotes
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and…
— Thomas Aquinas
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This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be…
— John Nelson Darby
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Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing…
— Jo Bonner
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
— Dan Barker
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources…
— Adolf Hitler
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms…
— Colin Greenwood
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they…
— Martin Luther
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Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of…
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white…
— Joseph Lowery
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are…
— George Ryan
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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed…
— Coretta Scott King
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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and…
— Jan Schakowsky
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