Books Assata

[National Socialist]

This book was not too bad. I enjoyed it somewhat because it frequently refers to police as pigs. Assata was an honorable woman because she gave children free breakfasts.

three neurologists testified at the trial that her median nerve had been severed by gunshot wounds, rendering her unable to pull a trigger, and that her clavicle had been shattered by a shot that could only have been made while she was seated in the car with her hands raised. Other experts testified that the neutron activation analysis administered by the police right after the shootout showed no gun residue on her fingers, meaning she had not shot a weapon.

Harper said that he saw Assata take a gun from her pocketbook, while in the car, and shoot him. He admitted, on cross-examination during both Sundiata’s trial and Assata’s trial, that he never saw Assata with a gun and did not see her shoot him—that, in fact, he had lied.

I believe in living.

I believe in birth.

I believe in the sweat of love

and in the fire of truth.

Every day there were three shifts of police... Some saluted an army salute, but others saluted like the nazis did in Germany.

Police are neo-nazis.

Little did i know that Lincoln was an archracist who had openly expressed his disdain for Black people. He was of the opinion that Black people should be forcibly deported to Africa or anywhere else.

Sometimes in life we just have to accept things that are unpleasant.

Black brothers, Black sisters, i want you to know that i love you and i hope that somewhere in your hearts you have love for me. My name is Assata Shakur (slave name joanne chesimard), and i am a revolutionary. A Black revolutionary. By that i mean that i have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied.

For every pig that is killed in the so-called line of duty, there are at least fifty Black people murdered by the police.

[A woman] had been arrested for drunken driving in the driveway of her own house.

once [police] had beaten a pregnant woman so badly she lost her baby.

I love this line. I'm a natalist.

He was the same little runt who had sat across from me in the hospital, pointing a shotgun at me and switching the safety on and off, talking about how he liked to kill animals.

Cops kill animals. This book has so much stuff critical of the police. I love it.

“Oppression is worse than slaughter,” he quoted from the Holy Koran.

“I am about life,” i said to myself. “I’m gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i’m not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born. I’m going to live and i’m going to love Kamau, and, if a child comes from that union, i’m going to rejoice. Because our children are our futures and i believe in the future and in the strength and rightness of our struggle.” I was ready for whatever happened. I relaxed and let nature take its course

I was long past the day when i thought that reform could possibly work, but revolution was a big question mark. I believed, with all my heart, that it was possible. But the question was how.

You simply mention the word “communist” and a lot of these red, white, and blue fools are ready to kill.

Capitalists are evil. "Better dead than red"

In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism.

In the 1700s, the state of Massachusetts was paying the equivalent of $60 for a scalp and Pennsylvania paid $134. It wasn’t until more than a hundred years later, in response to the massive genocide at the hands of whites, that the Indians themselves started scalping.

the u.s. army had purposely given the Indians smallpox-infected blankets.

I was as happy as a bee in a pollen factory to meet him.

This is such a good analogy I'm going to borrow it.

Against water hoses and bulldogs.

Against nightsticks and bullets.

Against tanks and tear gas.

Needles and nooses.

Bombs and birth control.

We carried it on.

Rent [in Cuba] is no more than about ten percent of salaries. There are no taxes—no income, city, federal, or state taxes.

“There is no racism here.”