George Jackson Quotes

United States, Author
September 23, 1941 – August, 21, 1971.

George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an African-American author. While serving a sentence for armed robbery in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the Maoist-Marxist Black Guerrilla Family. In 1970 (from the Prison) he published Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book would become a best-seller and earn Jackson personal fame.

Also known as Activist

Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.

George Jackson
I'm convinced that it is the psychopathic personality that searches out a uniform. There's little doubt of what's going on in that man's head who will voluntarily don any uniform.

George Jackson

Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

George Jackson
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

George Jackson
- Black
- Abused
- Unrighteous
Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?

George Jackson
- Power
- Attack
- Awe
We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

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

George Jackson
- Patience
- Far
- Cowardice
It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

George Jackson

Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own revolutionary culture. This can be done only by creating perfect disorder within the cycle of the enemy culture's life process and leaving a power vacuum to be filled by our building revolutionary culture.

George Jackson
- Culture
- Process
- Aim
They will never count me among the broken men.

George Jackson
- Men
- Broken
- Count
The debate ends, the action begins. It is not a question of the necessity of violence, but how to organize it to fit our unique situation, to tie it with flawless exactitude to our political activity, and to organize it immediately.

George Jackson
- Violence
- Activity
- Debate