GEORGE JACKSON

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

First Things First

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

First Things First

I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

I'm always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

They will never count me among the broken men.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish