Mumia Abu-Jamal Quotes

#1. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

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#2. Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

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#3. If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

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#4. The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

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#5. I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

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#6. I was punished for communicating,

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#7. Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

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#8. If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

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#9. Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

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#10. Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes

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#11. The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

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#12. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

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#13. I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

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#14. The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

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#15. When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
just, yet refuse to defend it
at that moment you begin to die.
And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
justice.

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#16. The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy. And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect

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#17. Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

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#18. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

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#19. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

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