Assata Shakur Zitate

Assata: in her own words
Kontext: My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Olugbala ( "for the people" ) Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U. S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Kontext: we who rip off billions of dollars every year through tax evasions, illegal price fixing, embezzlement, consumer fraud, bribes, kickbacks, and swindles. They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs.

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Variante: 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.
Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: In Her Own Words, p. 152
Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

Quelle: Assata: An Autobiography

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)

To My People (July 4, 1973)