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.

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.

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.

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

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