"People think that in order for something to……" — Assata Shakur
"People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice."
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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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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when…
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going…
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of…
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I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm…
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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