“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.”
"Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars."
- Assata Shakur
Love
"I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder."
- Assata Shakur
Awareness
"Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well."
- Assata Shakur
Compassion
"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided him to port."
- Assata Shakur
Hope
"Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself."
- Assata Shakur
Change
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity