Mumia 3 Quotes & Sayings

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. — Ilana Mercer

Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, "Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US. I, the European, am telling you. I am your political guide, your icon, your mentor for political references. I am telling you that you should support the relevant causes." — Bocafloja

The young woman's surprised gaze dropped to the gun in his hand and then back to his face. — Madeline Sheehan

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks. — Kenneth L. Fisher

The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy. And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect — Mumia Abu-Jamal

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up? — John Edgar Wideman

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes — Mumia Abu-Jamal

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
just, yet refuse to defend it
at that moment you begin to die.
And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
justice. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I was punished for communicating, — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Theirs was a closeness that went way beyond physical proximity. She was under his skin. Moving closer to his heart.
He just didn't know it yet, because no one else had ever found the pathway before. — Kitty French

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at. How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! In reality, as she knew, the door never clanged: it stood always open; but most of the captives were like flies in a bottle, and having once flown in, could never regain their freedom. It was Selden's distinction that he had never forgotten the way out. — Edith Wharton

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he'd go broke buying paper. — James P. Blaylock

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him. — Orson Scott Card

At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi. — Vinnie Paz

(A dervish was tempted by the devil to cease calling upon Allah, on the ground that Allah never answered, "Here am I." The Prophet Khadir appeared to him in a vision with a message from God.) Was it not I who summoned thee to my service? Was it not I who made thee busy with my name? Thy calling "Allah!"was my "Here am I." Jalal-uddin Rumi — Aldous Huxley

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity ... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance? — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

You know I have trouble with colloquialisms, so I resent your shocked reaction. — Jessica Park

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable. — Stephenie Meyer

Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

To a boiling pot flies come not. — George Herbert

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. — Mumia Abu-Jamal