“If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”
― Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics
― Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics
“and, if i know any thing at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“But, in the end, it is the threat of universal extinction hanging over all the world today that changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man's history. We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement. We have taken this journey and arrived at this place in God's name. This, then, is the best that God (the white God) can do. if that is so, then it is time to replace Him-replace Him with what? And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks off Harlem”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“It was once said that the poor are “constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“...only guilt admitted accepts truth.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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