Powerful Quotes From Legendary Activist Assata Shakur

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history and your true heroes because they know that knowledge will help set you free.”
~ Assata Shakur pic.twitter.com/wvT8ZqNIgr

— Mzilikazi wa Afrika (@IamMzilikazi) July 16, 2018

Assata Shakur asking the important questions, as always: pic.twitter.com/sqT3zwY2yq

— PSA: 18 days left in 2018; Toradora Rewatch Day 8 (@highreaching) July 16, 2018

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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."

— The Black Detour (@theblackdetour) July 15, 2018

“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

— White supremacy is unnatural (@vapemyworld) July 15, 2018

"This planet needs a people’s
r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution....we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit.
The power of the people is stronger than any weapon." ~Assata Shakur

Born #OTD July 16, 1947 pic.twitter.com/DZhT8ko3P1

— The Crisis Magazine (@thecrisismag) July 16, 2018

Happy Birthday, Assata Shakur!: “Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

— Cde Ruka Chivende 🇿🇦 🇧🇼 🇿🇼 (@AlbaMokopane) July 16, 2018

“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”

― Assata Shakur #dreamshustlevillage
📸: @duanecia x @YBGB_Institute x @MsPackyetti #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/1qhUNkv9Wm

— Dream Village™ (@dreamvillagehq) July 16, 2018

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.
- Assata Shakur #Africans #TheMoneyShow #WorldCup #BLF pic.twitter.com/VNPlsnQmwk

— Remember R Sobukwe (@RamarumoTshiko1) July 14, 2018

-Assata Shakur'
"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."

— larry rush (@rushljr) July 15, 2018