George Jackson Quotes
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Chremylus: Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
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The only thing I command is respect.
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I have a great family and great friends, and I think that they'll keep me grounded.
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I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.
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Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
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I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.
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The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.
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I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.
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Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.
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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
