We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.