#assata shakur
Lending Library
Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur
Moving Towards Home: Political Essays, by June Jordan
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“WE SERVE THE PEOPLE”
New York City chapter of the Black Panther Party’s Harlem office, circa 1970 with racks of free clothes for the community in front.
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✊ Happy Born Days to the revolutionary hero Assata Shakur!
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who were oppressing them.”
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In Memory of my mother, Lezlie McCoy. Rise in Power. I miss you.
“To My Momma” - from Assata Shakur’s autobiography
Asé. ❤️
P.S. Happy Birthday to Assata, a mother of the revolution.
(The other symbol is the duafe Adinkra symbol)
- July 16, 2016
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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.”
Assata Shakur
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—Assata Shakur,from Assata: An Autobiography
Full(er) context: “The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody 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.”
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