We cannot wait for permission to fight for what is right. - Assata Shakur

"We cannot wait for permission to fight for what is right."

Assata Shakur

Activist, Revolutionary American Born 1947 (age 79)

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"I have never been afraid to speak the truth. I have never been afraid to stand up for what I believe in."

"The most important thing is that you understand your own power."

"Resistance is not futile; it is essential."

"I am a Black revolutionary, and that is what I will always be."