“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.” FormPoliticalLeftBlackViolenceGroupsStudentsCollegeArmyActivismLiberationRadicalismPanthersBlack PantherWeathermenPolitical Violence Author:Marisha Pessl
“White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.” PeopleThinkingReasonDoneFightingBlackWhiteArmsGunConsciencePoliceGuiltCeaseGuiltyLiberationBlack PeopleDirtOrganizeGuilty Conscience Author:Assata Shakur
“It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.” BlackStruggleFateLiberationCrucial Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.” PeopleWorldWellsBlackCommunityFreedomCuttingVictoryConcernedLiberationBlack PeopleOppressedImperialismTentacles Book:Assata: An Autobiography Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!” PeopleMenTryingSidesBlackLiberation Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.” PeopleReasonFightingBlackWhiteArmsGuiltLiberationBlack PeopleOrganize Book:Assata: An Autobiography Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.” ThinkingWayHumansBlackStruggleFemaleLiberationAnti SemitismOthers Struggles Author:Sally Potter
“Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentWould BeTodayPoliticalCertainBlackNumbersClassEconomicMiddleConnectionsDecadesInevitableLiberationMiddle ClassBlack PeopleQuestsEmancipationBourgeoisie Author:Angela Davis