“If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of peasants and workers are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence. All”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970.”
― Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
― Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“As noted in 1964 by Robert P. “Bob” Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): “It’s not contradictory for a farmer to say he’s nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder’s head off.”
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
“The movies are probably a very unsafe guide to popular taste, because the film industry is virtually a monopoly, which means that it is not obliged to study its public at all closely.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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