Omali Yeshitela Quotes & Sayings

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted — Omali Yeshitela

To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence. — Omali Yeshitela

The police become necessary in human society
Only at that junction in human society
Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got — Omali Yeshitela

Sometimes our positions are unpopular in the short term, even among the masses, only to be vindicated as events unfold to reveal a truth that was obscured by the faulty analysis of the prevailing common perception. On such occasions we must move in opposition to the direction the masses are attempting to go. Otherwise, what is the meaning of leadership? — Omali Yeshitela