Mumia 2 Quotes

#1. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Marc Benioff

#2. Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.

Janet Fitch

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#6. with her, almost as though she were an equal. But he was

June Hall McCash

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#8. Anyway, I'm done with God."
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?

David James Poissant

#9. Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

Whitney Houston

#10. They offer me a space on the sofa next to them and the pain of them being so naturally kind is like appendicitis. I need to double over and hold myself because they are so kind and keep regenerating and recharging their kindness without any input from me. CROW

Max Porter

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#12. I was punished for communicating,

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#15. The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#16. I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.

Haruki Murakami

#17. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#19. Vhalla wasn't exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.

Elise Kova

#20. Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

Ilana Mercer

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#23. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#24. If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

John Edgar Wideman

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#26. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

#27. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#28. 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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#29. Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.

Vinnie Paz

#30. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#31. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#32. 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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal