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"When you listen to Mumia Abu-Jamal, you hear the echoes of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and the sisters and brothers who kept the faith with struggle, who kept the faith with resistance."

"The violence was quickly labeled by the media as a 'police riot,' since many innocent bystanders were beaten without cause."

"'Look, motherfucker! Help the Third World by fighting capitalism at home! Don't cop out by hiding under Ho's and Mao's skirts when your real job is to overthrow domestic capitalism by dealing with the real possibilities of an American revolution! Develop a revolutionary project at home because every revolutionary project here is

"I could see that the Wasichu (non-natives) did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother."

"Anarchism is a libidinal movement of humanity against coercion in any form, reaching back in time to the very emergence of propertied society, class rule and the state."

"'Grandfather, the flowering stick you gave me and the nation's sacred hoop I have given to the people. Hear me, you who have the power to make grow! Guide the people that they may be as blossoms on your holy tree, and make it flourish deep in Mother Earth and make it full of leaves and singing birds.'"

"The centralized party--a completely bourgeois institution--became the refuge of counterrevolution in its most sinister form." If I didn't know better I'd think he was talking about the DNC!

"I could understand the birds when they sang, and they were always saying: 'It is time! It is time!' The crows in the day and the coyotes at night all called and called to me: 'It is time!' It is time! It is time!'
Time to do what?"
"There were many low voices talking together in the east, and the daybreak star would sing this song in the silence: 'In a sacred manner you shall walk! Your nation shall behold you!'"

"To the degree that workers, vocational students and high school students link their lifestyles to various aspects of the anarchic youth culture, to that degree will the proletariat be transformed from a force for the conservation of the established order into a force for revolution."

"How could men get fat by being bad, and starve by being good?"

"The dissolution of the factory into the community completes the dissolution of the last vestiges of propertied, of class, and, above all, of mediated society into the new polis. And now the real drama of human life can unfold, in all its beauty, harmony, creativity, and joy."

"First a holy man was sent out all alone to find the waga chun [rustling tree, cottonwood], the holy tree that should stand in the middle of the dancing circle. Nobody dared follow to see what he did or hear the sacred words he would say there. And when he had found the right tree, he would tell the people, and they would come there singing, with flowers all over them."

"Thus far every social revolution has foundered because the peal of the tocsin could not be heard over the din of the workshop."

"He was a small man among the Lakotas and he was slender and had a thin face and his eyes looked through things and he always seemed to be thinking hard about something. He never wanted to have many things for himself, and did not have many ponies like a chief. They say that when game was scarce and the people were hungry, he would not eat at all . . . Maybe he was always part way into that world of his vision."

"WE ARE INVENTING
A NEW ORIGINAL WORLD
POWER TO THE IMAGINATION!"

". . . It was not just the nuns and the people of that ignorant mountain town who were engaged in this conspiracy to keep us ignorant--it was the whole society that was doing it, everyone was engaged in doing it--a kind of mass deception the whole populace was engaged in, without even realizing it, certainly encouraged by vested interests everywhere . . . "

"I felt sorry that we had killed these animals and thought that we ought to do something in return. So I said: 'Father, should we not offer one of these to the wild things?' . . . He raised his hand and cried, 'Hey-hey' four times and prayed like this: 'Grandfather, the great spirit, behold me! To all the wild things that eat flesh, this I have offered that my people may live and the children grow up with plenty."

"A rejection of the prevailing state of affairs accounts, I think, for the explosive growth of intuitive anarchism among young people today. Their love of nature is a reaction against the highly synthetic qualities of our urban environment and its shabby products. . . . Their tendency to drop out, to avoid toil and the rat race, reflects a growing anger towards the mindless industrial routine . . ."

" . . . It [the sun] sang like this:
'With visible face I am appearing.
In a sacred manner I appear.
For the greening earth a pleasantness I make.
The center of the nation's hoop I have made pleasant.
With visible face, behold me!
The four-leggeds and two-leggeds, I have made them to walk;
The wings of the air, I have made them to fly.
With visible face I appear.
My day, I have made it holy.'"

"The most important process going on in America today is the sweeping de-institutionalization of the bourgeois social structure. A basic, far-reaching disrespect and a profound disloyalty are developing toward the values, the forms, the aspirations and, above all, the institutions of the established order." "They no longer believe in its claims. They no longer respect its symbols. They no longer accept its goals . ."

" . . . The Wasichus had found much of the yellow metal that they worship and that makes them crazy, and they wanted to have a road up through our country to the place where the yellow metal was; but my people did not want the road. It would scare the bison and make them go away . . ."
". . . The [king]bird spoke and said: 'The clouds all over are one-sided.' Perhaps it meant that all the clouds were looking at me."

"It is the story of all life that is holy and good to tell, and of us two-leggeds sharing in it with the four-leggeds and the wings of the air and all green things; for these are children of one mother and their father is one spirit."

" . . . Marx's socialism is a protest against this very lovelessness, against man's exploitation of man, and against his exploitativeness toward nature . . . The unalienated man, who is the goal of socialism as we have shown before, is the man who does not 'dominate' nature, but who becomes one with it, who is alive and responsive toward objects, so that objects come to life for him."