1. “Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is….never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.” ~ Assata Shakur
2. “It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.” ~ Assata Shakur
3. “Before going back to college, I knew I didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.” ~ Assata Shakur
4. “Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.” ~ Assata Shakur
5. “Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself.” ~ Assata Shakur
6. “I decided on Assata Olugbala Shakur. Assata means ‘She who struggles,’ Olugbala means ‘Love for the people,’ and I took the name Shakur out of respect for Zayd and Zayd’s family. Shakur means ‘the thankful’.” ~ Assata Shakur
7. “We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.” ~ Assata Shakur
8. “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” ~ Assata Shakur
9. “We were alive, and we were excited, and we believed that we were going to be free someday.” ~ Assata Shakur
10. “My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and I wanted to dance.” ~ Assata Shakur
11. “A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man.” ~ Assata Shakur
12. “We had to learn that we’re beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active”
13. “When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear”
14. “The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.” ~ Assata Shakur
15. “But I never could make much sense out of war.” ~ Assata Shakur
16. “Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.” ~ Assata Shakur
17. “If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.” ~ Assata Shakur
18. “I had grown up believing the slaves hadn’t fought back. I remember feeling ashamed when they talked about slavery in school.” ~ Assata Shakur
19. “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.” ~ Assata Shakur
20. “A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.” ~ Assata Shakur
21. “My life wasn’t beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.” ~ Assata Shakur
22. “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 know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk”
23. “But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” ~ Assata Shakur
24. “Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.” ~ Assata Shakur
25. “To win we have got to wear down our oppressors, little by little, and at the same time, strengthen our forces, slowly but surely.” ~ Assata Shakur
26. “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.” ~ Assata Shakur
27. “Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.” ~ Assata Shakur
28. “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ~ Assata Shakur
29. “i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth”
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