The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
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