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Assata Shakur Quotes: Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
         

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.


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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 were oppressing them.



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It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.



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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.



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Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.



I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.



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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.



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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.



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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.



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To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.





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