The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
Mumia Abu-JamalThe media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
Mumia Abu-JamalMany claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.
Mumia Abu-JamalContrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empiresโฆ But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.
Mumia Abu-Jamal