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“Whites fighting against racism have to fight on two levels: against institutionalized racism and against their own racist ideas.”

“Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing of people without ever having to look at the corpses.”

Assata refers to her trial as a “legal lynching”

“Revolution is about change and the first place the change begins is in yourself.”

Assata thought every oppressed group should come together including Asians, Natives, and the Black community

“I am tired of watching us lose. They kill our leaders, then they kill us for protesting.”

“The injured have no blame. Let it fall on those who injure.”

“Only the strong go crazy, the weak just go along”

The name Assata means she who struggles

All the differences between the north and the south during the Civil War were economic, not moral