Top 37 Quotes About Mumia
#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. 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
#3. Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
Ilana Mercer
#4. The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.
Barack Obama
#5. 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
#6. The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#7. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#8. 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
#9. The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#10. We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died ...
Charles Todd
#11. To be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.
Virginia Henley
#12. What's your name."
"Um ... " I don't know why I hesitate, but Betrise just doesn't sound right anymore. I have a chance to be remade here. A new fraction, a new name.
"Tris," I say firmly.
"Welcome to dauntless," he says to me.
Veronica Roth
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
Dennis Farina
#16. It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
Cory Booker
#17. If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.
George Orwell
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#22. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#23. 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
#24. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
E.W. Howe
#27. Regrets are born in old age, never in youth.
Beem Weeks
#28. I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.
Joshua Bell
#29. 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
#30. Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
Anna Olson
#32. Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#33. If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#35. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
#36. 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
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