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Assata Shakur has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 libraries without…
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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 people who…
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Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills…
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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 what you…
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I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and…
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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 if you…
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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 about Black…
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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 world that…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
— Assata Shakur
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To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security…
— Michael Parenti
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I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
— Susie Bright
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing…
— Diane Wakoski
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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate…
— Robert Ringer
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I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
— Bernard Marcus
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
— Nancy Reagan
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At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with…
— Judy Chu
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The…
— Barack Obama
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
— Alice Walker
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The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically…
— Robert Reich
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