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1. "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

2. "A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man." ~ 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. "from Assata's time cooking at the free breakfast program for kids:One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back. 'There's something wrong with your pancakes.''What's wrong with them?''They don't taste good." ~ Assata Shakur

5. "While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. This city is on the brink of bankruptcy, and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent on this trial. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations." ~ Assata Shakur

6. "No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is. That's why political work and organizing are so important. 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." ~ Assata Shakur

7. "Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant." ~ Assata Shakur

8. "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." ~ Assata Shakur

9. "The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives." ~ Assata Shakur

10. "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." ~ Assata Shakur

11. "And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information." ~ Assata Shakur

12. "People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom." ~ Assata Shakur

13. "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

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