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A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
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Jamaica
Queens
Joanne Deborah Byron
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Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
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We are pregnant with freedom.
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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.
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A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.
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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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This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
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I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us
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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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I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.
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People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, Honey, things are hard. It reminds me I have to keep struggling.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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