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

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

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.

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

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

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