Blood in My Eye Quotes

“I repeat: realistic, day-to-day needs should be the basis of organizing people and making them conscious of revolution-- that the world, the universe, must revolve-- that it will stop, stagnate, and die for no man's privilege.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“The only effective challenge to power is one that is broad enough to make isolation impossible, and intensive enough to cause repression to affect the normal life style of as many members of society as possible. By compromising and playing at class war, we lose.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“Racism has served always in the U.S. as a pressure release for the psychopathic destructiveness evinced by a people made fearful and insecure by a way of life they never understood and resented from the day of their birth.”
― George Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“This Vietnam adventure on the part of the fascist has vastly changed the whole relationship between the masses and the ruling class. Can you detect the subtle changes? The really ugly side of imperialism is being demonstrated for not just the people who suffer its effects abroad, but also to the sleepy little guy here inside the U.S. They're starting now to make the link between foreign wars and foreign businesses.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.”
― George Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“You can generally tell what processes a man's mind has gone through by what he's studied, observed.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“We're going to have to fight to win. The logic of procrastination has been destroyed. A people can never be so repressed that they can't strike back in some way. We will purge the poltroons and fight. Or just ignore them.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“I can only be executed once.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“Racism has served always in the U.S as a pressure release for the psychopathic destructiveness evinced by a people made fearful and insecure by a way of life they never understood and resented from the day of their birth”
― George Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“A sweat-shop displaced the plantation.”
― George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye