“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution.
You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.
You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.
And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude
And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and instead moving on pigs.”
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You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.
You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.
And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude
And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and instead moving on pigs.”
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“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
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“I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.”
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“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
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“Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we're gonna have to fight, we're gonna have to struggle, we're gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they're a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don't even understand what peace means.”
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