"Before this generation goes on to its ancestors,……" — 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."
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
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22 Quotes by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal has 22 quotes on this site.
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The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
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At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed…
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Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of…
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The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window:…
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Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
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The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
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Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.
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I was punished for communicating,
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Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes
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Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of…
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Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.
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I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a…
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.…
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
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