Quotes by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America’s boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.

Blessed

Government

White

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people’s minds and lives.

Mind

People

This Generation

Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… 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.

Believe

Exercise

Fighting

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Believe

Conventional

Conventional Wisdom

Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

Law

Long

Order

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Children

Evil

Opposites

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

People

Want

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

Heart

Here And There

Overcoming

I have learned not to do predictions. It’s not helpful, psychologically. I don’t sit and fret about things.

Helpful

I Have Learned

Predictions

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Preparing

Preparing For Death

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Fighting

Giving

Government

Heart

Helpful

Here And There

I Have Learned

Ifs

Insane

Jobs

Justice

Law

Long

Lying

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Microphones

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Mother

Opposites

Order

Overcoming

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Pay Attention

People

Predictions

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Quotes by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people’s minds and lives.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

I have learned not to do predictions. It’s not helpful, psychologically. I don’t sit and fret about things.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

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