George Jackson Quotes

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.

They will never count me among the broken men.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I’m always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

I don’t want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination