"People get used to anything. The less you……" — Assata Shakur
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."
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58 Quotes by Assata Shakur
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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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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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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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