“We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool let's somebody tell them who the enemy is.”

—  Assata Shakur

Source: Assata: In Her Own Words, p. 152
Source: Assata: An Autobiography

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