Quotes by George Jackson

• Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
• Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
• They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.
• Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
• Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
• What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.
• But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.