Top 31 Mumia Abu Quotes
#1. If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?
John Edgar Wideman
#2. Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
Ilana Mercer
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#7. Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#12. 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
#13. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#14. The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#15. We wolves did many things: change, hide, sing underneath a pale, lonely moon - but we never disappeared entirely. Humans disappeared. Humans made monsters out of us.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. There were some chains you wore because you wanted to.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. 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
#19. If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#20. All work was designed by God to be priestly work.
John Ortberg
#21. Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#23. I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#24. 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
#26. When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
Gallant
#27. She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#29. 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
#30. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#31. A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
